The background work for the Historical Research Project has been very beneficial to the total project. The proposal gave me a goal the references helped my stay focused, the annotated bibliography let me see how I wanted to use the source, and the outline gave me a good blueprint for my final paper. I have included links to all of these papers below. I found that not only were the papers all necessary, but that I enjoyed doing them so I could form a plan in my mind for the end-goal. This has helped prepare me for the longer research papers that I will do in the future. I am so glad I had the opportunity to do these.