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Essay Instructions: Document Analysis
Documents are more than the written word they offer a window into a historical period. Documents encompass more than just books or letters than can be visual or audio. For this assignment, you will find a primary source document to analysis. A primary source is a source written or created close to the historical period/event you are looking at.
Assignment: For this class the document can be from indigenous America to 1865. You will analyze your document based on the questions below. Please attach your document to analysis if it is long documents please attach only a couple of pages. The analysis should have a thesis statement.

The following questions will help you write a document analysis I want the main body of the paper to focus on question 8 and 9.
1. Who wrote the document? The creator of the document can reveal much about the intent of the document. Question like if the author is a politician or a protestor can show you what the goal of the document is.
2. Who was the intended audience? Was the document intended to be seen by the public or was it a private diary? By exploring the audience can tell you if the author is being completely honest or was it to further a public goal.
3. What was the story line? What are the historical events happening around the document. What led to the creation of the document? By exploring the world around a document you can say if the document was effective, what affects it had or if it was not released.
4. Why was the document written? Everything is written/created for a reason. By exploring that you develop a better understanding of your document
5. What type of document was it, or what was its purpose? A phone book is different than a diary, and both are different than an inscription on a grave. Thus, one can expect to extract different kinds of information from different kinds of documents.
6. What are the basic assumptions made by the author? For example, did the author assume that the reader could understand certain foreign or engineering terms in the language?
7. Can you believe this document? Is it reliable? Is the information likely or reliable?
8. What can you learn about the society that produced this document? This is what you will be concentrating on in this class. All documents reveal information about the people who produced them. It is embedded in the language and assumptions of the text. Your task in this course will be to learn how to "read," or analyze, a document to extract information about a society. You might wish to analyze each document in terms of various aspects of a society (economic, political, religion, social structure, culture, etc.). This is not something that comes easily, but with practice you will be able to uncover what is really in a document.
9. Finally, what does this document mean to you? You might also consider this as the "so what does it mean to me" question, but it still requires an answer even if the answer is going to be a resounding, "Who cares."

Please make sure to not plagarize, I have never had a problem with this from Academon, but I will be putting it through a plagarism check and so will my teacher :)

The document I have chosen is the Emancipation Proclamation written by Abraham Lincoln.

Essay Instructions: Sum up historian Allen Guelzo view of the constitutionality of the Emancipation Proclamation and the constitutional factors that Lincoln had to take into account in deciding to issue it.

Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

400 words will be fine.

please use footnotes and just the one book of Guelzo
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Essay Instructions: Essay Topic: Comparison of Lincoln's remarks in his Sixth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas (http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/debate6.htm) with the position advanced by the Emancipation Proclamation (http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/transcript.html)

Essay must:
Introduce the issue
Summarize the important points of both the Debate and the Proclamation
Identify any differences of opinion
Identify differences in policy
Suggest reasons for the shift
Conclude study

Similarities and differences must be supported with specific details, positions be logical and supported by textual evidence, and the work must demonstrate clear understanding of Lincoln the candidate vs. Lincoln the wartime President.

Essay Instructions: In the wake of the Civil War era slave emancipation, one the most important issues facing the country- black, white, north, south- was the meaning of “freedom.” Slavery was gone, but what would the status of slaves be in a post-slave society. The emancipation proclamation and the 13th amendment both pronounced slavery dead though said little about the regime of social and political relationships that would then follow.

In “The Terrain of Freedom,” several actors on the ground in south Carolina expressed their opinions about what freedom should mean and what sort of policies ought to be enacted to uphold. The actors included a plantation owners, a white union army officer, a black union army officer, and a group of former slaves.You are to explain what their conceptions of freedom.Were there ideas that all of them shared.What sort of dangers and opportunities did freedom present. What did a meaningful freedom require.What did they see as the important difference between slavery and freedom. A good essay will have an organizing theme or argument and defend it with evidence quoted directly from the document.