Your research paper may treat any aspect of the course we cover, whether social, political, economic, religious, cultural, or intellectual in nature. If you should choose a paper on an intellectual topic, I want you to keep the subject firmly grounded in its time and place.
Abstract discussions suit another kind of course.
Your paper should be a critical and balanced treatment of the subject, and not a polemic. Please take some pains in selecting scholarly books and articles. If an author s other writings are on alien abductions or Elvis sightings, move on to someone else. There is a helpful web link to SJU Drexel Library resources for historical research. Please state clearly in the first page or so exactly what it is you are trying to show and then muster the evidence accordingly.