Category: History


  • Answer both of the following short identification prompts. Each will be scored on a 0-10 scale, for a possible total of 20 on this assignment. 1) Identify and explain the War on Terror 2) Identify and explain the G.I. Bill Remember a short ID question requires a written response, using complete sentences and appropriate grammar…

  • Compare Jordan’s explanation for the origins of slavery in British America to that offered in lecture on September 4 and 6. Can the human oppression exhibited in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries be explained solely in economic terms? In your well-developed, well-organized 3 page essay (in MS Word format), be sure to support your assertions…

  • Progressives believed they could address the problems of their time, particularly those relating to urbanization and industrialization, through rational means. This week, you read an article (Customer to Consumer) and watched two films (Prohibiiton and Hull House) dealing with progressive reforms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many Progressive reforms resulted in greater…

  • Early Educational Experience Objective: This reading looks at Chicano’s early education experience. Your objective is to identify the author’s early educational experience. You must answer the post questions and reply to two classmates for this summary. You must submit an initial response before you can reply to your classmates. Grade Rubric: Two points for critically…

  • Instructions Purpose: Understand the views and goals of the two best-known black leaders of the turn-of-the-twentieth century U.S.: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. You will do this by writing an editorial supporting one of the men (please use W.E.B Dubois for this essay) from a specific historical perspective. This assignment will help you practice…

  • READ THIS ENTIRE PAGE VERY CAREFULLY BEFORE VIEWING THE VIDEO! Write a ‘journal entry’ that will allow you to do some self-reflection about your religious and cultural beliefs as well as your views of the body. When responding to the video below, it will be necessary to interrogate your own biases and beliefs. As you…

  • Assignment 1 – in 500 words, propose your research topic. In doing this, be as descriiptive as possible, and refrain from being prescriiptive. Explain what makes the topic important. Explain what makes it a good case study for the intersection of the political and the colonial. Explain how the little-known history of this topic (revealed…

  • This question considers a highly debated and widely researched aspect of international diplomacy leading up to WWII, particularly between Britain/France and Germany. **From this paper, List the historians associated with this topic. use the articles from your paper on your topic. What are some debatable issues, perspectives, or arguments advanced by historians? Examples: AJP Taylor…

  • Not formal just note taking 4 chapters and there is an outline Will attached directions. The textbook is “Meggs’ History of Graphic Design”

  • Discussion of VL ‘The Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs’ Presumably you guys learned little to nothing about the Conquest in high school (although some of you may have pursued this topic simply out of your own interest); regardless, I would like you to settle on some one piece of information for discussion that you found…