Be sure to support your generalizations with examples, and to make your examples and evidence work as part of your answer. Please proofread your work and use footnotes or endnotes when you refer to the readings. Please identify the question you have chosen. Choose a theme around which to focus your comparison, for example land, animals, work, gender roles, rich planters, goals in life, background, Christianity. Be sure to identify time, place, and other relevant details.
Historians use footnotes or endnotes rather than parenthetical citations inserted in the text.
Further references may be found on the History Department Home Page. The page number or numbers in your footnote should refer to the location of the particular idea you are citing, so often there will be only one page, but sometimes several. There are two purposes for footnotes in historical writing. They tell the reader where you found the evidence you are using to back up your point, or they tell the reader where an idea or interpretation of evidence originated. Major Problems in African-American History vol.