This is the second semester course in United States History. It includes the political, cultural, and social development of the United States from 1876 to the present. This course meets California State University requirements for United States History.
Type: Research Paper
Topic: A topic of your choosing from U.S. History from Reconstruction to the present.
Length: 7-10 Pages
Citation Format: Chicago Manual of Style (with footnotes) and a bibliography
Required Sources:
If you have a topic in mind, search the catalog for books and articles to help you narrow or broaden your search. You can use the subject headings to search similar titles or to search as keywords. You can find other keywords in a book or article summary, abstract, or description. When you have enough research to focus on a specific topic, start to think about how your research supports a particular stance or view of the topic. This stance can function as a working thesis that you can refine when you are further in the writing process.
Great Lives from History: American Women by 
Gale Encyclopedia of U. S. Economic History by 
The First World War and Its Aftermath by 
The Confidence Trap by 
Selma to Saigon by By Subject:
By Keyword:
Primary sources are documents or physical objects which were written or created during the time under study.
Secondary sources interpret and analyze primary sources; they are one or more steps removed from the event.
