I am an undergrad history student and I'm supposed to write

>>2186405
you should mention the jews
ask on /pol/ for advice on that

Hope you fail, fucktard.

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>>2187808

A good hypothesis would be the discord between the truth and biases.

Looking at both the biases of pro and anti imperialism would be the natural next step, but if your professor is neurotic I expect he will want you to follow the prevailig opinion and focus on how historians of the past had a bias in favor of imperialism.

Next step is to gather sources and look at standards of proof and evidence. Ironically you have to apply these standards both to yourself and the subjects you are examining.

You may also have to stick to a particular event in history, one which we know a lot about. Then compare how the facts of this event compare to their interpretation by various historians and commentators at the time. This will cut down on the workload.

Again I expect your professor will want you to examine some of the historians he mentioned, though you should also find at least one other interesting examples since this is a proper research paper not an essay.

Finally you have to blend the analysis into a conclusion. Making sure you maintain the standards you set yourself, avoiding confirmation bias and so forth. Your conclusion should answer the initial hypothesis and the title of your paper.

That sounds like a really fucking boring topic.

>>2186405
>takes an upper division history course
>without ever having written a research paper before
>as a /his/ major
What shitty fucking school do you go to?

>>2186405
Focus on British imperialism in India.

Contrast the academic stances from pre-WWI with today, then contrast the "popular" conception of imperialism pre-WWI with today.

>>2188468
This pretty much
>Pre ww1
White mans burden. Go Empire!
>modern opinions
Empires are bad mkay

>>2186405
>'Imperial trends in historiography'
Does this only refer to the British empire? Is there more information?

>>2187919
>>2188468
>>2188504
Thanks

>>2188453
Trust me, it is a shitty fucking school.

>>2190706
No it doesn't have to be just the British empire. But I was planning on focusing on that.