READING AND WRITING ASSIGNMENT #1

Type your answer to the following and send it to me AS AN ATTACHMENT at mdemazza@hvrhs.org no later than July 28th. Be sure your name is at the top of your typed response/attachment.

Assignment #1:

What is "historiography"? (Please answer in your own words ... do not simply repeat the Wiki or Concordia University or whatever answer ...). Based upon your understanding, how is historiography different from literature? Why is that distinction important to us as we begin our study of United States History?