User:JamesPegler/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Ethnohistory)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.) I chose the article of Ethnohistory because I have just returned from the annual meeting of the American Society of Ethnohistory and the discipline is fresh in my mind.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.) The lead section is very well crafted and contains all of the elements that were listed above. The article content is relevant and easy to follow. The theoretical content may be a little confusing to the average reader, but the nature of the discipline requires a theoretical discussion. I believe that the article would be improved by examples of ethnohistoric research, and with further theoretical discussion of the contribution of Ray Fogleson's articles. The article is a little heavily weighted toward the Latin American side of Ethnohistory, and would benefit from more discussion of the Indigenous North American aspects of Ethnohistory. The sources are good, and pertain to the topic at hand. They are scholarly peer-reviewed sources or monographs that pertain to the topic.