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Our writing assignments have focused on analytical questions and on close analys
Our writing assignments have focused on analytical questions and on close analysis. This last assignment focuses on comparison and narrative: It is time for you to tell the story of American capitalisms across the 19th century, based on materials threaded through the latter portion of the course.
To do so, you shall need a starting point (the antebellum era; mid 19th century) and an ending point (the First Gilded Age; end 19th century). The central question is: What were the fundamental terms of change in economic life from the mid to the late 19th century in the United States?
In analyzing this question, keep in mind crucial underlying questions. What were the main fulcrums of transformation? What were the key agents of change? Who benefitted? Who suffered? Who gained power? Who lost power?
To address these questions effectively, you shall need concrete substantiating evidence from your lecture notes, historical documents, and course readings. Such evidence will enable you to set up your starting point and ending point for careful comparison to transformation, and your equally careful attention to different social groups.
So, you are telling the story of a century of dramatic change in American economic life, attentive to power dynamics and power differentials. It will be impossible for you to fit everything in a short paper, of course, so you will have to be selective and strategic in order to convey what you believe to be the very central story — yet one with nuance.
Be sure to have a clear overarching argument in your introductory paragraph, and to have a clear analytical purpose in each body paragraph, along with a judicious amount of substantiating evidence.
Papers should fulfill the expectations indicated under “Writing Assignments” in the Course Policies. Please submit electronically via Canvas, any time before the deadline. (I am afforded 72 hours to do all the grading, and the final grades.)
Finally, be sure to endnote/footnote the precise source of any quotations, derivative ideas, or uncommon facts. There is no need to do any outside research for this assignment, as you already have plenty of material to work with.
Sample endnotes/footnotes:
1. Lecture notes, April 16.
2. Wendy Gamber essay (1995).
3. “Commerce and Commercial Character.” The Merchants’ Magazine (1841).
4. “Editorial and Miscellanies.” DeBow’s Review (1866).
5. Stimson, Henry. “The Small Business as a School of Manhood” (1904).
6. Heather Cox Richardson chapter (2007).
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