Migration

The Analysis exercises provide students with experience that will help them develop their skills as historians, by:

Distinguishing primary from secondary documents
Distinguishing the time when a document was created from the time to which it applies
Identifying and classifying the data in a document
Characterizing the perspective or outlook of a document’s creator and of persons portrayed in documents — as well as the student’s own perspective on each document
Locating a thesis or main point in a document
Comparing documents
Assembling the analyses of individual documents into reviews of groups of documents
Identifying gaps in evidence — topics for which evidence is desirable but not available
Stating the student’s own thesis or main point
Composing different types of historical essays — a historical narrative differs from a historiographical essay or the write-up of a research agenda.
Collecting and presenting examples to illustrate the argument in an essay