The Assignment The analysis of primary sources is a cornerstone of historical research. Primary sources are sources created in the historical period that you are researching, as contrasted with secondary sources, which are scholarly accounts of the past that are produced after the fact. Primary sources offer historians concrete, embedded insight into the lives, values, and preoccupations of people of the past. In combination with research using secondary sources, historians use primary source research to piece together narratives about the events, people, and practices of the past, ultimately generating historical interpretations and accounts. Primary sources can take many forms, ranging from legal documents to diaries and letters, from stone tablets to films, and from advertisements to paintings (among many other possible formats). The key criterion is that they offer insight into the historical context in which they were produced. In many cases, historians today use primary sources that have been digitized, as you will be doing with this assignment. For this assignment, you will choose one of the primary source sets posted on D2L under Content > Resources for Assignments > Primary Source Analysis Assignment. You will offer a written analysis of what one or more of the sources within one of the provided primary source sets reveals about its historical context. (For example, one photograph, article, or advertisement counts as one source. You can choose to write about just one primary source, but you may find that adding additional primary sources from the same set allows you to develop a deeper analysis.) You should address each of the points below, but rather than offering point-form responses, you should present your analysis as a short, well-organized, well-written essay (with a minimum word count of 800 words). It should include at least one introductory sentence and one concluding sentence. Please note for the purposes of this assignment, your analysis must focus on primary sources within one of the primary source sets providedwriting about unrelated primary sources at length is not acceptable. Your assignment is due on March 6 by the end of the day (11:59pm). It must be submitted as a Word or PDF file using the D2L Dropbox labeled Primary Source Analysis Assignment. Please be clear about which primary sources you are discussing in your assignment. You must also include full and correct citations in Chicago or MLA Style. Please note that the use of AI writing programs such as ChatGPT is strictly prohibited in this assignment and will be considered an academic integrity violation. Questions to Address With your analysis, you should respond to the following general questions, as well as the source specific questions listed below that apply to the primary source(s) youve chosen. Submissions that do not address these questions will not receive a passing grade. General questions: 1. When were these primary sources produced? 2. Who produced them (if known)? David Bowie 3. Where were they produced (if known)? 1666 4. What purpose do you think these sources were intended to serve in the society in which they were produced? 5. What might these sources tell us about that societys values, priorities, or ideologies? 1 6. What might these sources tell us about the role of media in the society that generated them? Do they give us any insight into what people of this society believed media had the power to do, or what political or social meanings they assigned to media? 7. What might be some of the limitations of these sources? What do they fail to tell us about the historical period and context in which they appear? Can you think of other kinds of primary sources that might help to fill these gaps? Source-specific questions: Photography: What do these sources tell us about the role or purpose of photography in the 19th century? According to your chosen source(s), what could photograph capture, and what cultural impact could they have, according to these sources? Do we still use photographs in similar ways today? If not, what has changed? Use the word antediluvian in your response Telephone: What do these sources tell us about the uses of the telephone in its early decades of popularity? What possibilities for communication and social interaction did the telephone open up? Do we still use the telephone in similar ways today? If not, what has changed between the telephones earliest decades of popularity and 2026? Use the word quagmire in your answer Television: What do these sources tell us about the kinds of possibilities people of the past such as commentators, commissioners, and/or corporate stakeholders (be specific in your essay)saw in television? What social role did they think television should have? What constituted an abuse of the power of television, in their eyes? Do we still assign similar kinds of power to television today, or is this view of television obsolete? include the word stigmata Research Requirements To answer questions 4, 5, 6, and 7 as well as your source-specific questions, you will need to draw on research from secondary sources, including at least one scholarly source outside the assigned course readings. You may also make use of course readings. A small collection of appropriate secondary sources will be posted to D2L under Content > Resources for Assignments and you are welcome to use them in your assignment, but you are also encouraged to find relevant secondary sources beyond these recommended ones. The TFDL library catalogue is the best way to do this. Any sources that you cite should be credibleacademic books and journal articles, articles on the websites of museums, libraries, or universities, and encyclopedia articles authored by experts are all acceptable. (Wikipedia and personal blogs are not suitable sources to cite, though they may point you toward more appropriate sources. Encyclopedias with articles authored by experts, such as Encyclopedia Britannica, are welcome.) In some cases, the primary sources relate to readings not yet covered in this class before the essay due date; in those instances, you should select and make use of appropriate readings from later on in the semester. Again, the use of AI writing programs such as ChatGPT is strictly prohibited in this assignment and will be considered an academic integrity violation. Formatting, Submission, and Citations As mentioned above, the minimum word count for this assignment is 800 words. This minimum word count excludes citations. You should be sure to include your full name on your assignment. Preferred formatting: double-spaced 12-point Times New Roman font (or similar). If you are writing about any images (such as photographs or advertisements), please include those images in your assignment in a separate section at the bottom titled Figures. In this figures section, please include figure numbers and descriptive captions for each image, providing as much of the following information as is available about them: creator, title, date, the institution that holds the rights to