Discipline: History - American history

1. Contrast the celebrations of “Discovery Day” in 1892 and “Columbus Day” in 1992. How do you explain the differences? 2. Compare the ways Columbus and Las Casas described the environment and peoples of the New World. How do you account for the similarities and differences in their observations?

  The assignment is credit/no credit and you will receive 30 points once you earn you credit (and if you go above and beyond you can earn 10 points of extra credit). Each answer should be a paragraph to several paragraphs long and fully address all parts of the question If your answer(s) are either […]

  1.Determining the possible influences on an author or limitations of an author’s point of view is an important tool for understanding the validity and reliability of a source. Read this excerpt Identify the statements that might cause a reader to challenge the accuracy of Equiano’s narrative. 2.  Explain in detail the Thirty Years War, […]

Context: You need to create a thesis and support it with a sources from the Primary Source Boards.  Your thesis should talk about why and how an event or trend occurred in U.S. History, within the era we’ve been studying. It must have a point of view and be arguable (that is, someone else could argue it’s not true). […]

ASSIGNMENT: This week’s topic combines materials from weeks 3 and 4. Your assignment is to use insights or arguments from any one of the assigned articles to analyze a primary source. For instance, use an insight from David Waldstreicher’s article from last week to analyze an actual runaway slave ad from the 18th century. There […]

Why did Americans engage in imperialism (1890-1914)?  What pushed Americans to drop traditional isolationism and engage a more interventionist, imperialist foreign policy?  a discussion of 1 political cartoon that helps demonstrate/illustrate their answer to the above questions.  

  1.Click on this link https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/florentine_codex.htmlLinks to an external site. and watch the video at the top, in its entirety and read the article below the link, feel free to use chapter 12 readings as well to answer the below questions. What value does the Florentine Codex hold? Is the Florentine Codex a reliable primary […]

Do you believe that a border fence is constitutional? What combination of physical boundaries and legal constraints should the United States use to prevent undocumented immigration ? What about the rights of immigrants ?

  So first you need to read the document on Silas Dean, and then answer the following 3 questions: What was the initial theory about Deane’s death? What facts supported that theory? Who is Julian Boyd, and what is his theory about Deane’s death? Can Deane’s death be attributed to Suicide? Murder? Stroke? Accidental Overdose? […]

  How does Buonaiuti describe the plague and its ferocity? What details does he report to support that description? While Buonaiuti may not directly assert an explanation for the causes of the plague, what are some indirect indicators for what those experiencing the plague thought were its causes? What are the effects of the plague […]