The Kent State Incident

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Interpreting the Past: The Kent State Incident One of the main jobs of historians is to interpret the past by reviewing primary documents, scholarly secondary sources, and then creating an analysis of this research. After reading your text and reviewing the assigned materials, submit a thesis-driven paper analyzing the Kent State Incident. You might want to consider the following questions, What pieces of evidence are most / convincing? Why? On which facts does there seem to be general agreement? What are the central points of disagreement? Were the National Guardsmen or the students most responsible for the violence? This assignment should be 500 words in length. For full credit, your paper must not simply sum up the reading or repeat points made there. Rather, I am looking for you to create your own interpretation and discuss some original insight. Include Turabian-style citations as needed. Be sure to stay in third-person throughout the paper. Also, insure that you upload one of the approved SafeAssign file types, Resources: The Kent State Incident Along with your textbook, use these resources to prepare for your writing assignment: The Kent State Incident   Statement of General Robert Canterbury   Observations of Charles Brill   Testimony of Claudia Van Tyne   Testimony of Unnamed Guardsman   Testimony of Richard Schreiber