Although I will not grade your attendance, since participation counts toward your Preparation grade I will require you to attend class. If a student misses more than three classes, the preparation grade will be reduced 10 points at the end of the semester. If a student misses more than five classes, I will withdraw the student from the course. I will not check excuses.If tardiness becomes a problem, I will bar the door to tardy students.

After choosing a book, your job is to analyse it to discover the principle methods of historical detection used by its author, and to assess the book's place in the historiography (that is, what do historians think about it). You will use the After the Fact text to determine the methods of analysis the your book's author used in coming to his or her conclusions. To assess where your book fits in the historiography, you will look to see what historians have to say about it. Thus you will read/use scholarly reviews of your book, the best of which can be found in Reviews in American History or the New York Review of Books.

Deadlines: Since we all have access to email, I expect everyone to meet all the deadlines posted here. You may turn in work early, but everything is due by the start of class on the day it is due. (If you email me your work, I will only accept it if it attached as a Word or Word Perfect file. No other formats will be accepted.) Failure to meet any of the preliminary deadlines will deduct 1 point per day late from your research project grade. Failure to turn in the final draft on time, will cost you 10 points per day late. Also, I expect your preliminary work to reflect an honest effort, not a last second attempt to placate me. I expect the name of your book, and a note as to whether you have procured it, as the product of the first deadline. Either check it out of UGA library, or look at your own local library (or even purchase the book, if necessary.) I expect you to have looked at America: History & Life, JSTOR, Project Muse, and the New York Review of Books websites to find reviews to list in your bibliography. Your final grade on this project will reflect both how well you meet the deadlines and how much thought and effort you put into it.

Plagiarism: A quick note about plagiarism. Plagiarism is the quoting or the paraphrasing of any portion of another author's words or ideas without giving full credit to the original author. In short, it is theft of intellectual property. Anyone caught plagiarizing in any part of the assignments for this class, including tests, will dealt with according to the academic integrity policy found in the student handbook. We have a good deal of technology available to us to discover plagiarism, and I routinely catch at least one student doing this sort of cheating every semester. To aid me in this process of checking your work for plagiarism, you will turn in your paper project in electronic format. (Only WORD or WORD PERFECT formats accepted).

Summary of Paper Project: In 5-7 pages, summarize a book, analyse the methods used by its author to come to its conclusions (using the after the Fact book), and assess how useful this book is considered by historians who know the field (using several scholarly book reviews). Papers completed in the fulfillment of my course become the property of the University of Georgia and I may mount any of those papers on a webpage, at my discretion.

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Research References

I expect you to use these references for your research.

	America: History and Life	GIL UGA's Library Catalog
Library of Congress	Georgia Department of Archives and History

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Make-up Tests: All make-up tests will be essay tests and will take place on the last day of class for the semester (December 5). If you know you will miss an exam, you should let me know as soon as you know, or at least 3 class days in advance of the test. If an emergency unavoidably prevents you from attending a test, you should contact me immediately following your return to school to let me know you are interested in taking a make-up, and you should contact the Office of Student Affairs, who will verify your excuse before I will allow you to take a make-up.

Final Exam Conflicts: Always check your final exam schedule before the last week of classes to determine if you will have a conflict. There are published procedures for what to do for conflicts and you should follow them. If you are going to pursue the conflict procedure, you should let me know not later than the last week of classes that you are submitting a request to student affairs. If you do not follow university procedure, I am not allowed to let you to take an exam at a special time.