Course
ASI120
Semester
Spring
Instructor's Name
Elizabeth Mackay
Year
2018
Writing Process
After studying the Civil War and the Reconstruction era in depth, I was required to choose one aspect of the Reconstruction era and write a historiography based on it. I researched how historians studied and interpreted the role of the Freedmen's Bureau, which was an agency established immediately after the end of the Civil War. I studied how these interpretations of the success of the Freedmen's Bureau's changed over time. I began by producing an annotated bibliography of the eight scholarly sources. I wrote three drafts and conferenced with my professor as well as the Write Place consultants. I revised and closely proofread my work several times. This historiography exemplifies how historians' view of the success of the Freedmen's Bureau altered over time.
Editor's note: For this paper, the author received the Barbara Farrelly Award for Best Writing of the Issue ($200 prize)
Recommended Citation
Sobnosky, Jennifer Ann
(2018)
"The Bumpy Highway to Freedom: U.S. Reconstruction and the Freedmen's Bureau,"
Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing: Vol. 5:
Iss.
1, Article 11.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/lxl/vol5/iss1/11