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Thomas Jefferson
One primary source(the autobiography of Thomas Jefferson), two secondary(scholarly) sources, Do not use any source with the word encyclopedia in its title, do not use websites (if the website includes .com, .org, .net, etc., avoid it), do not use popular magazines, do not use Wikipedia, and avoid published sources without footnotes or endnotes. DO NOT start off intending to prove something. The goal of a history research paper is to analyze the evidence in its context, drawing conclusions about it. Let the primary source guide your conclusions. Be fair to historical people. Judge them by their context. That does not mean you have to agree with their actions or views, but you do need to extend to them the same courtesy that you would want someone to extend to you. All analytical papers must have an argument. This is the overarching description of your conclusions from your research, usually one or two sentences long. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/jeffauto.asp
