More tips on your paper

1.) Give your paper a title.

2.) Geocode: Give me an address that relates to your topic. Make sure it is a valid street address or a specific location that I can map.

3.) Put your name at the end, like this:

Bob Smith
Loyola University New Orleans

4.) I do not want a bibliography. Before your end notes, please put a "For further reading." This will list one or ideally two books or articles or a link to a website where a reader can find more information about your topic, either generally or specifically. But give me no more than three. This is not unlike Wikipedia.

5.) Images: Include any images you might have separately on a CD that you will provide to me. Include a list of the images with the file names, citing the source of each image. I'll have a student assistant go through these at some point, so be as specific as possible.

6.) Your essay needs to be on the CD in Microsoft Word (doc or docx) format.

7.) I will have a spindle of CDs in the history office tomorrow. Be sure to label the CD with a sharpie. I also want a printed copy.

SOME COMMON MISTAKES:

it is 1920s, not NOT 1920's. They are not possessive.

South is capitalized, as is Civil War.

Here is the order your paper should follow:

Title
Address 

Text of your paper

Name
Loyola University New Orleans

For further reading:

Notes:

(footnotes) 

Citation examples for your essay

Here are some citation examples for use in your footnotes. Please place your footnote number at the place where you cite material in the text. Place all footnotes at the end of the document (endnotes). Use this format:

(All the numbers should be superscripts, which I have a problem reproducing in Blogger.)

For a book: 

1 Lawrence Powell, New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1980), 10-23.

Second citation:

2 Powell, New Masters, 244.

For a chapter in a book of essays:

2 Joseph G. Tregle, Jr., "Creoles and Americans," in Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization, ed. Arnold R. Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1992), 140.

Second citation:

3 Tregle, Jr., "Creoles and Americans," 150.

For an article in a journal:

3 Robert Cinnamond Tucker, "The Life and Public Service of E. John Ellis," Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 29, no. 3, (July 1946): 686.

A letter in an archive collection:

4 Abby Day Slocomb to Col. J. B. Walton, 17 July 1862, Walton-Glenny Papers, Williams Research Center, Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans.

U.S. Census (accessed online): Note: every decade's census has a slightly different set of page numbers, roll designations, etc. Just fit them to this form:

5 1860 U.S. Federal Census, roll m653_592, image 499 (all census records were drawn from www. ancestry.com).

A piece of ephemera or photograph in an archive:

6 Photo of Endymion Float, Endymion collection, rare vertical file, Louisiana Room, New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans.

An interview:

7 Interview of Edwin Edwards by Justin Nystrom, 17 September 2001, audio recording in possession of author.

A newspaper: (add as much information as you have for the citation - the older the newspaper, the less you usually have. Headlines and bylines are a relatively modern innovation)

8 Times Picayune, 6 July 1885

8 "Man Bites Dog," John Brown, Times Picayune, 6 July 1992, sec. A, p. 2, col. 4.

Government publication: (again, use as much info as you have)

9 Report on the Use of Tongue Depressors in Left-Handed Doctor's Offices, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991), 21.

if it is unpublished (typescript):

9 "Report on the Liberty Monument," New Orleans City Council (New Orleans: 1987).

An item in a scrapbook:

10 unidentified newspaper clipping, 5 may 1921, scrapbook, box 2, folder 10, Grandma Clampett Papers, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans.

or

10 unidentified and undated newspaper clipping, scrapbook, box 2, folder 10, Grandma Clampett Papers, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans.


For online citations, please list complete URL of website.

Essay 4: The Politics of Race

Essay 4 will challenge you to write about how the politics of race have come to shape New Orleans in the 20th Century. Think about this as broadly as possible and incorporate examples from Hair, Campanella, Mitchell, and Gill.

Because of the short grading turnaround time, please limit your essay to NO MORE than 1200 words. Be concise.

This essay is due Thursday morning at 10:00 AM, along with you Sense of Place Essays. If you have written three essays and are happy with the grade on the two that count, you do not need to write this last essay.

Some citations help

Here is a quick and easy guide on how to make Chicago-style footnote citations for your paper.