In your review, please include excerpts from book reviews in at least two professional journals in order to give your classmates an indication of how well scholars have received the book. In addition, please give a full bibliographic citation of your book along with the call number of it. Your end of class project is to complete a 12 to 15 page comparative book review essay of four books, two of which may be taken from the required texts or books that you reviewed from the reading lists, and two books that you have not reviewed taken from the reading lists or the supplemental bibliography. Late written assignments and unexcused absences from class will automatically be given zeros. Only substantiated, or documented, absences will excuse you from missing any scheduled assignment.
Good writing is essential to history.
You will be responsible for reading Marius, A Short Guide to Writing about History, and using it as the course writing standard. Pay particular attention to chapter 1, and the ten criteria for a good essay, when you write your comparative book review essay.