Once you have read the content, in one full paragraph, tell me (in three sentenc

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Once you have read the content, in one full paragraph, tell me (in three sentences minimum) one specific thing that you learned from the article. In your second paragraph, tell me some specific information that you would have liked to have seen discussed further in the article (in three sentences minimum).

Historians do a relatively poor job of explaining their work process to others. Perhaps this and the ahistorical bent of our culture explain why my undergraduate students— even history majors—know astonishingly little about historical methods. Too many students think the study of the past consists of reading secondary works and reporting on them. At most they might evaluate a few primary sources. Yet the exceptions to this rule—students who write honors theses—show that undergraduates are capable of more serious work. We can coax them out of the box to become producers of new historical knowledge.

In 1997, in an undergraduate seminar for history majors at the State University of New York, Binghamton, I began a project that rewarded students' efforts with publication of their term projects on the course Web site. Binghamton, one of four university centers in the SUNY

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Further discussion in article:

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