historiography

There are many ways that a historian can understand and record a topic in history. In chapter two, you’ve learned that there are three meta-disciplines for historiography: traditionalist, revisionist, and post-revisionist. For this assignment, you will choose one of the following topics to show your understanding of these three styles.

Choose one of the following three topics in history:

The Women’s Suffrage Movement
The Holocaust
Manifest Destiny
Your task is to write about your chosen topic as if you were a traditionalist, revisionist, and post-revisionist historian. Step into the shoes of each of these types of historians and demonstrate how they would understand and record your topic in history. In addition, you should write an evaluation of the approaches you’ve written to highlight the limitations and strengths of each meta-discipline.

See next section for specific formatting instructions. Please read the next section carefully.

Formatting & Sources

In a single document, write three accounts of your historical topic as if you were a traditionalist, revisionist, and post-revisionist historian. Each account should be 250-500 words long and must include at least one primary or secondary source. Your last section should evaluate each of your accounts to highlight the strengths and limitations of each meta-discipline. In total, your essay should be 1,000 to 2,000 words. See the table below.

Section Word Length
Traditionalist Approach 250 to 500 words
Revisionist Approach 250 to 500 words
Post-Revisionist Approach 250 to 500 words
Evaluation 250 to 500 words
Total 1000 to 2000 words
Please write your paper in the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) format. If you’re unsure about how to use CMS formaqwat for your paper and sources