Order instructions 

1. Submit a thesis statement for your historiography paper and an annotated bibliography that summarizes 8 to 10 secondary sources on the causes and effects of the Atomic Bomb dropping over Japan.
2. Your thesis statement should be one to two sentences long and reflect your preliminary conclusions about the secondary literature about your topic. Each secondary source must be an authoritative, scholarly book or article that provides a clear interpretation of your topic.
3. Each entry in your bibliography should include an annotation of one to two paragraphs. The annotation will describe the secondary source’s thesis, argument, or interpretation and explain why the source is significant to a historiographical essay on your topic.
4. Instead of organizing the annotated bibliography by the author’s last name, as is the usual practice when using Chicago style, list the bibliographical entries and annotations in the order that you plan to analyze them in the final project.
5. Your organization may be chronological or thematic. the following critical elements must be addressed: I. Historiographical Development
6. A. Provide a detailed thesis statement that analyzes the historiographical trends that are relevant to your topic. B. Discuss the major scholarly works that will be explored in this paper, and identify which historiographical trend each should be affiliated with. C. What interpretations, conclusions, or arguments did each author make about the topic?
7. Guidelines for Submission:  This paper should follow these formatting guidelines: The thesis statement should be one to two sentences in length, and each entry in the annotated bibliography should include an annotation of one to two paragraphs, double spaced, with 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and citations in Chicago style. Cite your sources within the text of your paper and on the bibliography page.