First Argumentative Paper:

Due Friday September 9 in Class; 2pp. double spaced

This exercise should help you refine your historical thinking and, thereby, help you improve the historical project you are undertaking. This will also help you think more critically in ways that good historians are supposed to think, and will, therefore help your project.

• Reconstruct any major argument that Walter Lafeber or Tony Smith advance in their articles. CHOOSE ONLY ONE

• Summarize the conclusion and the major pieces of evidence that he offers to support that conclusion. Do you find this argument persuasive? Why or why not?