This assignment has four parts and here are the instructions below, please put four parts into four ...
This assignment has four parts and here are the instructions below, please put four parts into four different documents. The Era of the American Revolution continues to resonate in 21st Century politics. Politicians and political activists frequently invoke the authority of the Founders to support their particular agenda in the present. For a brief introduction to the use and abuse of the Founders, you can listen to this interview with Dr. Hatter on Spokane Public Radio: https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/regional-news/2022-08-10/george-washington-didnt-sleep-here-quoting-the-founders-in-the-21st-centuryLinks to an external site. You will write a short research paper (2,000 to 2,500 words) that will explore and evaluate an example of quoting (or misquoting) the Founders in 21st Century politics. To help you research and write your paper, you will first complete three small assignments: Part I: Identify an example of quoting the Founders in the 21st Century from a newspaper, blog, other related media. To begin, you need to identify a news or media sources from 2000 on wards that quotes one of the Founders. For our purposes, the Founders refers to anyone connected in anyway with Independence, framing or ratifying the Constitution, or the early years of the US government up to 1826. this could be someone "famous" like Jefferson, or someone less directly involved in politics like Abigail Adams. For this short assignment, you should provide the following in a Word file: 1. A URL link to the news/media source you have identified that uses a quote from one of the Founders. 2. Cut and paste the quote from the Founder. 3. Write a short paragraph (4-5 sentences max) explaining the context in which the author of the article/media uses the quote. In other words, you need to explain why the author is invoking the Founder in this piece. Part II: Identifying Primary Sources. In Part I, you identified a quote, or the invocation of an idea, from a Founder that was used in an article, blog, or other form of 21st Century Media. For this brief assignment, you will find primary sources that will allow you assess what the cited Founder might actually have written about the subject invoked in the media post. There are two places that you can assess the writings of the Founders at WSU: 1. WSU Library - The Holland and Terrell Library houses edited volumes of the Founders' papers. These physical books have been created by professional historians working on large-scale, long-term projects to carefully transcribe and annotate the papers of the Founders. I can assure you that these volumes exist and can be found through SearchIT and retrieved from the library stacks. 2. Online - I hope that you all realize that not everything on the Internet is true. Nevertheless, bona fide institutions, such as the Library of Congress and the National Archives of the United States, do provide digital access to thousands of pages of primary sources relating to the Founders. These are sometimes searchable. Sometimes you can access typed transcriptions of these writings. Other times, you can only access digital copies of the handwritten records. For this assignment, you need to submit the following in a Word document: 1. A full citation to the primary source you have identified that relates to the media quote you found in Part I. E.g. if you found a Jefferson quote, then you need to find a Jefferson primary source. 2. A citation to ONE specific document in the edited volume or online collection that you just cited above that relates directly to the subject of the media quotation you identified in Part I. E.g. you found a media reference to Jefferson's opinion on the legitimacy of political violence. The specific document you find needs to something that Jefferson wrote about the legitimacy of political violence. 3. A short paragraph explaining the connection between the media reference from Part I and the document you have found as part of this assignment. E.g. the media referenced Jefferson's support for political violence. This letter from Jefferson to William Short from 1793 shows that he supported the violence of the Terror in the cause of liberty. Part III: Identifying Secondary Sources. For your final proposal, you will identify some secondary sources to see how scholars have interpreted the Founders' writings on the issue(s) you identified in Part I, and located primary sources for in Part II. I hope that you are, by now, all familiar with WSU Libraries and SearchIt. This is where you will find your secondary sources. For the assignment, please identify at least FIVE secondary sources (books and scholarly articles) that will shed light on the context of the quote you identified in Proposal Part I. Provide a full bibliographic citation for each source in Chicago (Deep Dish) Style.
