Category: History

History is much more than a list of dates, names, and places. Examining our hist

History is much more than a list of dates, names, and places. Examining our histories helps us understand how the past connects to our present and what it means to be human. It allows us to make better decisions about our futures. History also provides us with very practical skills that are useful in any profession, such as determining the credibility of information, conducting research, and asking critical questions. Initiate your journey into themes within World History by selecting a topic of interest, conducting preliminary research, and crafting a focused research question.
Once we have a research question, our next step is to find one primary source, and two secondary sources to contribute to the chosen topic. This step will be completed in another Journal and will culminate in the submission of a slide presentation. This slide presentation will count as our final exam, and will be provided in the same format as most of the chapter slide presentations have been provided throughout the course.
Purpose:
This assignment is all about diving into World history. We want to show you why it’s important to understand the past, how it relates to today, and how to think critically and do research. You’ll get to pick a topic you find interesting, do some initial research, and come up with a clear question to explore. This will help you learn about history while also improving your basic academic skills.
Further Research
Topic Selection:
Based on the topic you chose from the list of sample research topics and the feedback provided in Journal 1’s submission, the task is to continue researching to find supporting evidence of your research question. Primary documents, journal articles, and monographs are great sources that you can find through the library, or ask the Research LibrariansLinks to an external site.Links to an external site.Links to an external site. for help. 
For this journal you will be focusing your research on Primary Documents.
What is a Primary Source?
Primary sources are firsthand accounts or direct evidence concerning a topic, event, or individual. They offer insights because they come from individuals who directly experienced, witnessed, or documented the events or phenomena in question. Characteristics of primary sources include:
Proximity in Time: Created at or near the time of the event.
Firsthand Accounts: Records created by direct witnesses or participants.
Official Documents: Treaties, laws, and other government documents.
Visual and Audio Materials: Photographs, paintings, recordings.
Artifacts: Physical objects from a specific time period.
Examples of Primary Sources:
Diaries and journals
Letters and correspondence
Interviews and oral histories
Treaties, laws, and constitutions
Photographs and paintings
Physical artifacts, like tools or clothing
Oral histories
Instructions:
Search for a Primary Source:
Links to an external site.Fordham University Internet History Sourcebooks ProjectLinks to an external site.
The Avalon ProjectLinks to an external site.
Perseus Digital LibraryLinks to an external site.
World History Encyclopedia: Primary SourcesLinks to an external site.
Euro DocsLinks to an external site.
World Digital LibraryLinks to an external site.
Links to an external site.
Using the topic and research question from Journal 1, search for a relevant primary source. This could be in online archives, digital libraries, the library, or museums.
Analyze Your Source:
Author: Identify the author or creator of the source.
Background/credentials: Research their background: personal, political, religious, or cultural affiliations.
How might these backgrounds have influenced the creation of the source or introduced biases?
Description: What type of source is it (e.g., letter, newspaper article, painting)?
Content Summary: Summarize its content. What is the main message or information conveyed?
Contextual Analysis: Relate the source to your chosen topic. How does it fit with your initial findings? Given the author’s background and potential biases, could the source be interpreted differently?
Citation:
Ensure you cite the primary source using Chicago Manual of Style, Notes/Bibliography CMOS format.
You may want to practice Primary Document Analysis – before submitting this assignment, go here: Primary Document Analysis. “History Skills Tutorial: Analyzing Images,” and/or “History Skills Tutorial: Analyzing Maps” Of course if your primary document is a map or a piece of art, there are other aspects you need to consider. Click the links if this is the case.
What to submit:
Research Question: This can be the same research question you wrote for Journal 1, but it’s okay if it’s changed a little to reflect your further research.
Selected Primary Source with a written analysis (see above)
How did you locate this primary source?
Description: What type of source is it (e.g., letter, newspaper article, painting)?
Content Summary: Summarize its content. What is the main message or information conveyed?
Contextual Analysis: Relate the source to your chosen topic. How does it fit with your initial findings? Given the author’s background and potential biases, could the source be interpreted differently?
CMOS citation and use this CMOS Template Download CMOS Template.

Purpose:
This assignment asks you to demonstrate the course competency of Globa

Purpose:
This assignment asks you to demonstrate the course competency of Global Engagement by considering different perspectives on a problem or controversy related to Modern US History and attempting to reach a resolution about it. The ability to understand different perspectives is not only a critical skill for historians, it is a skill that is essential to functioning as a well-informed citizen in society today.
Assignment Tasks
Students will evaluate and reflect on their civic engagement with a current problem or controversy.
Assessment for Global Engagement will take the form of a written assignment. In addition, students will participate in a co-curricular activity.
This assignment will be evaluated using an appropriate rubric.
After reading Pat Buchanan (1992) article, “The Culture War”, what conclusions can be made about Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan narrative about culture and religious wars in the early 1990s? Are there any points of contention and/or counter arguments to the article? Additionally, what continuous social challenges does the United States still face today?
Pat Buchanan on Culture War Link:

Pat Buchanan on the Culture War (1992)

Criteria:
Argument: Does your paper have a clear, singular, specific argument that answers the question?
Evidence: Do you use all of the relevant evidence to defend your argument?
Organization: Does your paper have a logical structure and use clear topic sentences and transitions?
Clarity: Is your prose efficient, crisp and polished, free of excessive passive voice or distracting spelling or grammatical errors?
Formatting:
12-pt., Times New Roman font, double-spaced
1” margins
1200-1500 words (4-5 full, double-spaced pages)
Make sure you stay below 15% plagiarism
APA Style
You must provide 4-5 references. One must be from your textbook and one from the article provided.

Imagine this scenario: You are a teacher who has been asked to create a graphic

Imagine this scenario: You are a teacher who has been asked to create a graphic organizer, infographic, or poster that compares the three branches of government created by the U.S. Constitution as a learning aid for a group of teacher students.
Note: You may create another type of visual communication as approved by your instructor.
Design your visual communication to be used as a teaching aid in your classroom.
Identify branch responsibilities and discuss checks and balances for each branch.
Illustrate visually which branch you believe to be the most powerful and why.

you talk about toxic relationship you got shit twisted in your head everything t

you talk about toxic relationship you got shit twisted in your head everything that happend between us is because of you and your actions how the fuck do you want me to feel when you wasted my life I Given everything up for you I been there for you as you shited on me over and over you lied to me everyday you took from me you use me as you made a fool out of me fucking anything that walks you don’t love you never have and I know that in my heart you play games with me always keeping me on the back burner you never gave anything to this relationship never you couldn’t be faithful to me I loved you unconditional but you push me and push me I was never a priority nor have you had any respect for me you done the most unbelievable shit to me how when I done everything for you

topic – kenya (conflict for independence and role of kenyatta)
it should follow

topic – kenya (conflict for independence and role of kenyatta)
it should follow the following structure – 
1. background and context (to be discussed briefly)
2. explanation of the theme and specific issue of the research question in the context of the background given above.
3.interpretation , analysis and critical evaluation of a range of evidence
4. conclusion – whether the hypothesis stand correct or not.

Writing Assignment: Southern Horrors and The Red Record
Following the failures o

Writing Assignment: Southern Horrors and The Red Record
Following the failures of Reconstruction, African-Americans faced a segregated society. The Jim Crow laws of the South ensured African-Americans were treated as second-class citizens, while Southern society reinforced a culture of difference. Without much protection, African-Americans faced public humiliation and violence in the South, its most prominent feature being lynchings. Many African-Americans sought anti-lynching laws to be passed, one of the most fervent supports being Ida B. Wells. In this assignment, write a 3-4 page review of two of her pamphlets: Southern Horrors and A Red Record. It must answer the following questions:
Why is lynching so widespread in the South according the Southerners? Why is it so widespread according to Wells? What do these reasons for lynching tell us about Southern society and proper/improper behavior? What does it say about race, gender, and class?
How does Wells use newspaper articles and statistics to make her arguments? How does she treat her sources? What does she try to prove or disprove about lynching in the South?
How does Southern Horrors and A Red Record differ from each other? Why were multiple pamphlets needed to address the same issue? Is one pamphlet more effective than the other?
Formatting: Papers must be typed and double-spaced. The papers should be formatted with 1 inch margins on all sides and be written in a standard font, like Arial or Times New Roman, in size 12 font. A minimum of three full pages of text are required. No cover page is required. 
Citations: Citations are required for this assignment. When quoting or paraphrasing from the text, use parenthetical citations (Author, Title, Page #). The author’s name is only needed for the first citation, subsequent citations will just require the page. A Works Cited page is not required.

The paper should have two objectives. First, it should indicate that you have so

The paper should have two objectives. First, it should indicate that you have some factual knowledge of the topic. Second, your paper should express your opinion in a coherent, organized manner and provide factual support for that opinion. Facts and references must be properly footnotes. The “MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers” is a good reference for proper formatting and reference citations. Each paper will be a minimum of 4 pages, not including work cited or any graphs. The pages will be double-spaced with one-inch margins on all sides. A title page must be included, but does not count towards the page constraints. The title page will include the topic or questions you are addressing, your name, and the date. Papers must also include a reference page listing all sources used to support your position. This reference page does not count towards constraints. Papers must be in Times New Roman with a font size of 12.

In three to four double spaced times new roman 11pt font pages,I want you to exp

In three to four double spaced times new roman 11pt font pages,I want you to explain how the United States went from being allied with the Soviet Union to opposing it in the Cold War which lasted from 1945-1991.  In order to fully do this you must explain;
How and what the differing ideas of postwar Europe and Germany would look like for the United States and the Soviet Union. how states are governed and the Marshal Plan
The crisis in Berlin; blockade, airlift, wall
NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and “the Iron Curtain”  
The nuclear arms race and MAD (mutually assured destruction) to include the Cuban Missile Crisis
How the Cold War without major military ground conflict in Europe transitioned to two major wars of containment in Asia; The domino theory, Korea, and Vietnam
Finally the collapse of the Soviet Union to include it’s war in Afghanistan paving the way for new longer term conflicts.  
You will use only your book, our lectures, and any supplementary materials that we went over in class for this essay.  You therefore do not need to cite any sources in your essay.  You will not use any outside sources to complete this take home exam.  You will turn this in using the Turnitin tool to avoid plagiarism and other odious actions.  If you do not use the Turnitin tool I cannot give you credit for this exam.  If you have a problem you need to e-mail or Canvas message me immediately!   
CItes that can be used: Weird Weapons And Surprising WW1 Objects | Imperial War Museums (iwm.org.uk)Links to an external site.
Lives of the First World War FAQs | Imperial War Museums (iwm.org.uk)Links to an external site.
Above are a couple of resources from the Imperial War Museum to give a better British perspective of the Great War. 
Below are several resources for the US Experience in WWI.  I want to go experience the War Remains Virtual Reality Experience at the National WWI museum.  Anything that comes with a graphic nature content warning peaks my interest.  
World War I Centennial | THC.Texas.gov – Texas Historical CommissionLinks to an external site.
War Remains | National WWI Museum and Memorial (theworldwar.org)Links to an external site.
About WWI | National WWI Museum and Memorial (theworldwar.org)Links to an external site.
Remembering the Harlem Hellfighters | National Museum of African American History and Culture (si.edu)Links to an external site.
Sergeant Stubby — Badass of the WeekLinks to an external site.

Read Chapter 2 section 2e and “The Reasons Why”. Discuss the motivations for Eng

Read Chapter 2 section 2e and “The Reasons Why”. Discuss the motivations for English colonization of America. Identify a particular group or colony and discuss the political, economic, or social reasons behind their coming to the New World. Explain.

How did the Industrial Revolution affect American culture? What was life like fo

How did the Industrial Revolution affect American culture? What was life like for women, children, African Americans, and
immigrants during this era? Who was Jacob Riis and how did he expose the horrors of factory life and life in the American city?
Write a 3-4 paged paper answering these questions. Your paper must include a thesis statement in paragraph one that outlines
the message for your paper. Your bibliography does not count as one of the required pages. You must highlight your thesis
statement in your final submitted paper so I know which sentence your entire paper will be about.
Include at least (5) scholarly sources that includes 3 Academic Journal Articles, 1 Primary Source, and 1 other source of your
choice.
Formatting:
1-inch margins
Font Times New Roman size 12
3-4 pages max
Double Spaced
Word document (PDFS will not be accepted)
Do not use contractions. Your entire paper must be in past tense and written in third person at all times.
You must include in-text citations in either MLA, APA, or Turabian throughout the assignment including a final bibliography.
Your bibliography must be formatted per the example below (notice the spacing, indentation, etc.). It is critical that you include
in-text citations everywhere you used content from a source. If your assignments in this course are full of in-text citations, I will
know you have done your research. The sources you use to do your research must be scholarly sources. Do not use Wikipedia,
do not use encyclopedias (this includes history.com – this is not a scholarly source), do not use any sources that are not created
by experts in the history field (this means you cannot use blogs – make sure to look at the “Who we are” type tabs for any
websites you use to make sure the author(s) have Masters or PhD degrees in history). To be safe, you can use any Academic
Journal article from the BU website, and you’ll know it is a scholarly source (just do not use encyclopedia pages as those are
included in the library as well). If you have any questions about whether a source is scholarly or not, feel free to email or text it
to me for clarification. If it is not scholarly, I will tell you why as well so you can help learn to spot those.
You must cite all information from a source, not just quotes. Do not use quotes unless they provide power to your paper. If you
do use quotes, I prefer they only be from Primary Sources.
Other details:
Make sure your paper includes your name & a title
Do not include spaces between paragraphs.
Your submitted document must include your name and the name of this assignment.
This paper is due before midnight on Week 4.
How you will be graded:
Your thesis statement is solidly written and was highlighted within your submission – 1 point
You wrote in past-tense and third person the entirety of the paper – 1 point
Submitted assignment is properly named – 1 point
You followed rubric directions in general / used proper grammar & spelling – 2 points
Your analysis – 2 points
Proper usage of in-text citations and bibliographic formatting – 3 points
Total points possible = 10
Your bibliography must be in this format –