[Title of your collection]
[Your Name]
Historical Context
[Here you will write 5 paragraph introduction that provides context for your collection. This is
where you will contextualize your primary sources in history. Discuss what is happening during
the time, what are the issues, what major events occurred, etc. Imagine this as a space where you
present your primary source collection. All of your chosen materials should make sense in the
context you provide.]
Timeline of Events
[Include a bulleted timeline of major events surrounding and influencing the topic you covered.
These dates will reflect major events you found in primary and secondary sources. Aim to
include 10 points on your timeline. You may include both dates far apart and dates close together
in chronologyèoose any event that is relevant to your collection and helps the viewer
understand the context for your materials].
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Collection
[Below is where you will list your primary sources in an order of your choosing. List by proper
citation, include an annotation/blurb on the source and its historical significance. Below are two
examples.]
Document 1
Mrs. E. Potter, “Dress Reform: Is It Duty?” Water-Cure Journal, 15 (April 1853), pp. 82-83.
This reader of the Water-Cure Journal objected to Julia Kellogg’s assertion in an earlier article
that women need not feel obligated to wear reform dress if ridicule of their attire became
unbearable. Kellogg’s position mirrored that of the woman’s rights advocates, who by the mid1850s had for the most part abandoned “bloomers.”
Document 2
¥miniscences By E. C. S.,” History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 1 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan
B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds. (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1881), pp. 469-71;
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In the History of Woman Suffrage (1881), Elizabeth Cady Stanton discussed the reasons why
womenàrights activists abandoned the reform costume after wearing it only a few years. She
argued that she and other activists had not adopted the dress as a political statement, but rather
to achieve improved health and greater freedom of movement. She and others believed the
ridicule the dress provoked was hurting the womanàrights cause.
Bibliography
[full citations of the secondary sources you¥ used to write your historical context]

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