Discipline: History

   Reading Response to Things Fall Apart (1958)

Critics have charged that the United States was morally irresponsible in using atomic weapons against Japan during World War II.  What are the explanations that have been offered in support of dropping the atomic bomb? What is your response to these explanations? Make sure that you provide specific support from your readings.

ASSIGMENT 1  Purpose To demonstrate understanding of the Sepoy Rebellion through analysis of multiple documents. Directions Question: Using arguments and evidence from the following documents, make a claim to answer the question: What caused the Sepoy Rebellion? Sepoy Rebellion – Gardiner’s English History.docxDownload Sepoy Rebellion – Gardiner’s English History.docx Sepoy Rebellion – Joseph Coohill.docx Download […]

  Read about the Second Great Awakening and U.S, Revivalism beginning on page 256 to 260.  Write 300 words on the Second Great Awakening in the United States and its effects on American Christianity and the U.S. public sphere. Why do you think that church attendance increased by ten times from 1800 to 1860?  Give […]

  Write 300 words on what were the principle factors contributing to a rise of indifference toward religion during the Victorian era at the end of the nineteenth century. Why do you think that religion declined during this period of time? What were the major factors?     Give a brief review or summary of the challenges […]

Discussion #7:  Where should we place the blame for the Great Depression? Where should we place the blame?  Economists believe the Great Depression was caused by the weaknesses in the 1920s economy, but the person whose name will be forever linked to the depression is President Herbert Hoover.  Personally blaming him for the crisis, Americans started to […]

Summary of chapters 9 & 10. Equal amount of words for each chapter Study how Latinos racially identify and the specific cultural meaning of that identity. Explore the transformation of “Latinos” from a race to an ethnicity on the US Census. Examine how racial categories and classifications that originated under Spanish colonial rule often get […]

1 assigment  Purpose To demonstrate understanding of the French Revolution through documents pertaining to the Reign of Terror. Directions Question: The Committee of Public Safety was established to protect the Revolution from its enemies. Based on the Decree Against Profiteers and the Law of Suspects, do you think the Committee of Public Safety actually protected […]

  From 1300 to 1800 and from North Africa to India, Islamic civilization thrived under three dynastic houses: the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughals. All three empires had a period of expansion when territory was enlarged, followed by a high point politically and culturally and later a period of contraction, when territories broke away. At […]

  See pages 220 to 221 of the McGrath textbook on the rise of Enlightenment in Western Europe, especially in Protestant areas, especially in Calvinist areas. At the same time, Enlightenment did not seem to flourish in areas of Roman Catholic Europe, and it goes without saying that the Enlightenment did not arise in Eastern […]