Wimby/ MWH/Fall 2025: Assignment

Revolution in Haiti (colour litho). Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest, Accessed November 13, 2025. https://quest.eb.com/images/108_2531772.

Assignment Handout: Coach Wimby's MWH EP Essay

Project Purpose: To introduce students to the history research and writing process and to work on developing a historical argument and supporting that argument with evidence and analysis.

Research Purpose:
To gather evidence to develop your argument and support your analysis of this research question:

Prompt: We studied several revolutions in this unit: The American Revolution, the French Revolution, the
Haitian Revolution, and the Latin American Revolutions. Which Atlantic Revolution do you think
was the most impactful? Why?

Source Requirements:

• Minimum of  2 reliable sources
• Including nonfiction books and scholarly articles
• No general encyclopedias or Wikipedia; subject-specific encyclopedias are acceptable
• Web sites with teacher approval and website evaluation form

Citations:

• Record your sources in NoodleTools
• Use Chicago/Turabian Notes/Bibliography style for footnotes and citations
• Include a final bibliography at the end of your paper

Final Project: 5 paragraph essay