write to 500-1000 words about chosen sourse
A primary source analysis is the backbone of all historical enquiry. These assignments
ask you to read one of the “Sources” in Mathisen and squeeze all the information that
you can get out of it – both things that are easy, like who wrote it and what it says, and
things that are more difficult, like what we can infer that it doesn’t say. Your
papers must include an argument, which should be structured as “X has chosen to
depict events in Y way because….” (For example, “Augustus focuses on financial matters
in his Achievements because he realized that popular and military support was more
important than the support of the senate.”