Please read this carefully:
You do not need a cover page.
Please write about the documents in the order, listed in the official directions or in this text box.
The Thesis and Topic:
Primary Source Set Option 1. Upper Class Ladies and their Lovers
Suggested Research Question/thesis : How did 18th century men use rumors of same-sex sex to humiliate women like Queen Anne and the Countess of Newburgh, and how did these rumors normalize sex between upper class women?
Your sources:
● The Sappho-An (1730s/40s)
● The Toast (1732)
● Satire on Queen Anne and Her ‘She-Favourite’ (1708)
● The Rival Dutchess; or, Court Incendiary (1708)
Each of these documents have been copied to a word document with the original website url for your citation needs.
Three Extra Primary sources:
1.) A Case of Sexual Violence During Reconstruction, 1866
2.)“Report of Brevet Major General J. J. Reynolds, Commanding Fifth Military District” in Annual Report of the Secretary of War (Washington: 1868), 704-705.
3.)Mississippi Black Code, 1865
I have added the the website url for you to source at the bottom of each of the extra word document.
You will need to have the following.
● A completed Primary Source Worksheet for each source in your set. (7 total)
● An essay which uses evidence from all the sources in your set to answer a Research Question (minimum 1000 words).
● A list of other historical research questions that your source set might answer.
● Additional primary sources for your Response Papers (for you only):
● Three extra primary sources into each essay
● 12-point times new roman, 1-inch margins (Normal)
● Chicago style In text citations and a bibliography.
The focus for this assignment should be on analysis and the construction of a sound historical argument. In order to write a historical argument, you will need a thesis statement that can be substantiated with material drawn from your primary sources.
