Sample Annotated Bibliography
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Annotated
Bibliography: This section of the assignment will receive a letter grade.
An A paper:
1) Has a clearly focused topic appropriate to
this course.
2) Lists three scholarly sources in the required
style.
3) Includes a paragraph for each source
explaining how this source specifically informs
your topic. (Do not simply summarize the work.)
4) Has been
proofread for errors of grammar and spelling.
5) Includes a
title page with your name, course number and section number, date.
The purpose of
this assignment is twofold. We want you to learn something more about a topic
that interests you AND we want you to learn how to identify a paper topic, and
assemble useful sources to research the topic. Keep that in mind when you write
about your sources. What in this book or journal article would be useful to you
in a paper on your topic? That is what belongs in your annotation.
Here is a sample:
Topic: The
lives of immigrant women in antebellum American cities.
Bodnar, John. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in
Urban America.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1985.
This is a survey
of the experiences of immigrants to American cities after 1830. The book identifies
and examines the role of capitalism and industrialization as a factor in motivating
emigration and creating the conditions immigrants found on arrival. The
chapters concerning family, religion and everyday life are particularly
concerned with women.
Foner, Nancy.
“Then and Now or Then to Now: Immigrants to New York City in
Contemporary and Historical Perspective. Journal of American Ethnic History 25
(Winter/Spring
2006): 33-47. America History and Life, EBSCO
host (accessed April 10,
2011.)
This article
discusses comparisons historians have made between immigration experiences in
New York in the past and now. The author is very much in favor of comparative
analysis and notes that little work has been done on the comparative
experiences of mid 19th century and contemporary immigrants and
implies there should be.
Groneman, Carol. “Working-Class Immigrant
Women in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New
York.” Journal of Urban History 4 (May 1978): 255-274.
This article
examines the lives of immigrant women, mostly German and Irish in New York and
focuses on their work and marital status.
Social class was an important factor differentiating their lives from
those of other women in New York, and there were differences among and between
immigrant women too.
Harzig, Christine,
Ed. Peasant Maids City Women: From the
European Countryside to
Urban
America. Ithaca and New
York: Cornell University Press, 1997.
This book
includes studies of women from four locations in Europe (Germany, Ireland, Sweden,
Poland) which experienced a mass emigration to Chicago in the nineteenth
century. Their experiences were not identical. German women, for example, were
less likely to work as paid laborers than the other groups and Swedish women
moved out of the city faster than others. However, these women all shared
experiences too. Religion and religious
institutions were important in their lives and they were pivotal in the
development of institutions in their lives and their participation in the
organization of religious and benevolent organizations.
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