Essays should be 750-1250 words (3-5 pages). should have both references (footnotes or parenthetical style – just be consistent!) and a bibliography

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Assignment
Instructions

Essays
should be 750-1250 words (3-5 pages) All essays (typed & double-spaced)
should have both references (footnotes or parenthetical style – just be
consistent!) and a bibliography. In putting together your essay, please try to
use specific evidence from assigned and selected texts to support your
arguments.

Select one of the source pairings from the Contrast
and Comparison Exercises on the AHA’s Conquest of Mexico website (included on
the course Blackboard page), and find one scholarly journal article on the
Conquest (using America: History and Life, Historical Abstracts, JSTOR, Project
MUSE, or some other database accessible through NIU Libraries – you can’t use
Camilla Townsend’s article assigned for class). Write an analysis of the
primary sources and a summary of the argument from the article. Are the primary
sources you found cited in the article? What do you learn from both sources
that you did not learn from the book? That is, how do the sources and article
augment, enhance, or change your understanding of the topic compared to the
Bedford collection?

https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources-for-historians/teaching-and-learning-in-the-digital-age/the-history-of-the-americas/the-conquest-of-mexico/contrast-and-comparison-exercises

https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=c…