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HIST 150: Liberal Arts Education and the Vision of a Liberal Society (Spring 2024)

What do they do?

An Annotated Bibliography provides a summary of a work, address:

  • the topic
  • the argument (not the same as a topic
  • the sources and or methods
  • how it differs from other works on the topic
  • was it convincing in supporting the argument?
    • what did it do well? what did it do poorly?

Every peer reviewed article should have an author, title, publication date, topic, argument, sources, and historiographical argument [how it fits into the wider field].  You could summarize an article in 2 sentences if you wanted:

In the year article/book "Title," Author studies Topic, arguing Thesis. Using Sources/methodologyAuthor challenges existing literature by unique aspect of work.