Please post a 2-3 paragraph description of a project that you would like to pursue for your edited collection. The edited collection, which will be built in Omeka, calls for you to explore an inquiry question by gathering a group of primary sources. You will provide headnotes for those sources, and eventually a narrative introduction to the collection.

Consider topics and questions that you might have about the period we are studying. We are specifically discussing identity and access to power within American society, and your project should touch on those issues in some way, but the field is really very wide open. This will be your first attempt at articulating a project that will group and change through the course of the semester.

How does immigration shape the understanding of American identity between 1876 and 1924? Be expansive in your considerations and your answer, but make a concrete argument that you support with quotations from the sources. Consider the theoretical frameworks that Turner, Ngai, and Roediger and Barrett might provide to help you with your answer.

Length: 3-4 pages, double spaced, with a title and endnotes (on a separate page that does not count toward your total.

Use your individual Zotero folders to collect citations for the 8-10 key secondary sources on your topic. Add a note to each citation that includes 1) a summary of the argument; 2) a sense of the place of the source in the larger field of literature; and 3) a statement of how the source will contribute to your project.

What is race, and why and how does it matter? Consider this question within boundaries of the time period between Reconstruction and Great Depression. You should draw on some of the theoretical work that we've covered so far in the course. Feel free to reach back into the immigration unit. Use specific evidence from primary sources to back up your answer.

Papers should be 3-4 pages, double spaced with an additional page for endnotes.

Use your Zotero folder to provide an initial list of the 8-10 sources that you will include in your edited collection. Please include a note that explains why you chose the source, and that gives a brief critical reading of the source.

Consider the ways that our readings have presented a tension between tradition and modernity in the context of science. In what ways does recognizing this tension help you to understand the time period? How is this tension at work in conflicts about social goods, policies and ideals? Your answer should draw on the full range of sources from the unit (Adams, Servos, Goddard, the Buck decision, and Larson), citing specific textual evidence to support your argument.

Papers should be 3-4 pages, double spaced with an additional page for endnotes. And, don't forget a title.