Current+Events

Each week you will be expected to find one local news article that relates to local history and what we are studying in class. This assignment will be due each Wednesday, including the article and a one page response to how it relates to our current study. This does not mean the article has to specifically be about history. The article may be about changes going on around around historic Lehigh Valley sites. An example today would be the construction going on in downtown Allentown of the new arena. How does this affect the face of downtown? What was removed to place that arena there? These responses should be informal and in a conversational tone, but proper citations are still expected.

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A note about sources and citations:
When approaching a news source, you should use the same analytical and critical skills you use when approaching all sources. Look at who the author is, what their agenda is, and who their intended audience is. Just because you find something written somewhere, doesn't make it true. Remember that blogs and opinion articles in the newspaper do not face the same editorial scrutiny as other newspaper articles. Sources for all papers should be written based upon the Chicago Manual of Style. While this may not be the theory utilized in all of your classes, it is the one expected in college and graduate level history courses.

For tips on how to site things based upon the Chicago Manual of Style, please see the [|Quick Guide]. When utilizing the Quick Guide, the numbered entries are how things should appear in the footnote (the first citation being the example of how the first footnote for a source should be and the second being how all subsequent citations should look), and the plain citation is how it should appear in the bibliography.

I know it may be difficult to transition to a different citation method, but different fields use different methods.