Don't do it. Read the College handbook. This is a history course. Historical studies are one of many useful ways to look at human experience and the world around us. Think of history as one tool in your tool box as an educated person.
History is ultimately a life story.
To write history is to recreate a life story. Historical study, as a writer or as a reader, involves at least three kinds of reading. Most of us begin by reading secondary sources written by other historians. Such perspectives add depth to the re-creation of past life stories. Like different filters, such as in infra-red photography, analyses of problems bring to our attention key aspects of a story we might otherwise have missed.