Internet Web Page Research Project

The research project must be an historical treatment of a topic that can be documented by reliable evidence. It should pose a question about the topic, utilize primary and secondary resources relative to the question, and finally take the shape of a web site with organized pages and supported conclusions that represent an answer to the question, i.e., a thesis. Possible topics for web page projects may include the following: Local History including military history related to the Marines and Navy in San Diego, Family histories including collections of letters and photographs, Civil War, WWI including the Versailles Treaty and League of Nations, WWII, Cold War including treaties and alliances such as NATO, Mass Media history including films and sound recordings.

The text must be at least 2500 words, or about 10 pages in length, spell-checked with numbered footnotes or endnotes. The text must be consistent and uniform on all web pages, without word-formatting characters, as text-only without any font definition. The project must include an alphabetical bibliography of books and articles read for the project, at least two monographs (a monograph is a book-length nonfiction publication by a scholar on a single historical subject with numbered footnotes or endnotes and a bibliography; it is not an historical novel or an undocumented popular history or a collection of essays or an encyclopedia), one historical journal article with notes (historical journals are peer-reviewed journals that require footnotes or endnotes, such as the American Historical Review or the Journal of San Diego History) , and one Internet address (this address must be complete, with full title, author's name, copyright date or date last visited, and the complete URL starting with http://). Titles of books and journals must be italicized, not underlined. Journal articles must be in quote marks, Quotations and statistics must be used very sparingly. Follow the CGOS style guide.

The project must use colors, hypertext links to other relevant web pages, in-line graphics, maps and illustrations. It must include at least 1 full-screen original document scanned from a primary source unrestricted by copyright, at least 1 full-screen map relevant to the content of the project, a minimum of 5 full-screen pictures with identifying captions and picture source citations, and at least 5 hypertext links to relevant supporting addresses.

The resolution of the maps and pictures and scanned documents must be full-screen (JPEG compression at 72 dpi in the size of 800x600 pixels or larger), linked to in-line thumbnails of the same picture (GIFs or JPEGs at 72 dpi in the size of 160 x120 pixels). Pictures and documents and quotations must be identified by footnotes or endnotes, including a full citation of the source of the pictures and documents.

The project must be viewable on the Internet Explorer 5 browser, using correct HTML markup tags, with no spaces or illegal characters in the path name or the file name. File names and path names should be lower case one-word names only. See How to Make a Home Page at http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/documents/howhomepage.html. Examples of student pages may be found at http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/projects/Multimedia.html. See also links to Pictures and Multimedia Resources

Revised 5/12/03 by Schoenherr | History Department