Option 1: Choose any of the Supreme Court cases that we have discussed this semester in lecture or that appear in the SCOTUS excerpts on Canvas. Find two (or more!) scholarly articles in historical journals or law reviews that discuss the case. Explain what you learned from the articles and how they help you better understand the court case. Also explain how the authors’ arguments compare to each other. Where are their interpretations similar? Where are they different? What do you think accounts for the differences in the arguments or perspectives of your authors? (Here you are approaching historiography, or the study of the writing of history.) Do you find one of the articles more persuasive than the other? Explain why or why not.
Option 1: Choose any of the Supreme Court cases that we have discussed this semester in lecture or that appear in the SCOTUS excerpts on Canvas. Find two (or more!) scholarly articles in historical journals or law reviews that discuss the case. Explain what you learned from the articles and how they help you better understand the court case. Also explain how the authors’ arguments compare to each other. Where are their interpretations similar? Where are they different? What do you think accounts for the differences in the arguments or perspectives of your authors? (Here you are approaching historiography, or the study of the writing of history.) Do you find one of the articles more persuasive than the other? Explain why or why not.
Option 1: Choose any of the Supreme Court cases that we have discussed this semester in lecture or that appear in the SCOTUS excerpts on Canvas. Find two (or more!) scholarly articles in historical journals or law reviews that discuss the case. Explain what you learned from the articles and how they help you better understand the court case. Also explain how the authors’ arguments compare to each other. Where are their interpretations similar? Where are they different? What do you think accounts for the differences in the arguments or perspectives of your authors? (Here you are approaching historiography, or the study of the writing of history.) Do you find one of the articles more persuasive than the other? Explain why or why not.