Category: History

Week 2 Essay Assignment
Week 2 Essay Assignment
Assignment Overview:  
During even-numbered weeks (2, 4, 6, and 8), students will write and submit a 300-350 word college-level essay to Blackboard containing at least two reference sources.  Students will select a subject they find interesting and that has present-day importance from ONE of the week’s assigned chapter readings.  See “Blackboard Essay Instruction Manual”—for assignment details, grading rubric, sample written essay, and the course Capitalization Guide—located in Blackboard’s START HERE section.  The assignment is worth up to 20 points.
Submission Instructions:
Click the above folder title, “Week 2 Essay Assignment,” to access the instructions for submitting your fully completed essay to Blackboard. 
THURSDAY DEADLINE

You will write a two-page paper in which you address the following: 
Argue whether the Stonewall Riot was a new chapter in LGBTQ+ history or the continuation of a long struggle of organization and resistance.
This paper must be two FULL pages of text. There should be a title page with all identifying information that is separate. Please use 1.5 spacing in this paper; you must cite if you borrow from other sources. You must use MLA or the Chicago style (Turabian) when writing this paper. You are certainly encouraged to write more than two full pages, but if your paper is less than two pages, your grade will be substantially reduced.
Use the textbook of A Queer History of the Untied States

In 500-800 words, answer the following questions in a written essay using and citing material from primary source documents, jstor.org, your textbook, and lectures. Quoted material does not count toward your word count. Use Chicago Style footnotes or endnotes.The topic for the essay is  “How did colonies in Virginia and Massachusetts Bay differ in their concepts of freedom?” https://www.jstor.org/

A Historical Precis is a fancy, structured summary of an article or book (in your case an article). You will choose an article from the list provided below, and write a Historical Precis on that article. You must read/analyze the article and look for the thesis, the type of evidence, and the support for the thesis in 2 pages, no more or less. attached is a detailed guide of my expectations on how to do the precis.
Read: 
Pick one of the following topics:
1. (Climate Change and the Industrial Revolution: Informing Policy through History, Memory, and Literature) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iE3ksp3EJRWfx5PlWS9sf3cfCkWJoDqI/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105902198107668066781&rtpof=true&sd=true
2. (The Ku Klux Klan in a Central California Community: Tulare County During the 1920s) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1spen-LdDIYjTJQx8pmiutju776LP_lry/view?usp=sharing
3. (Science and Religious Fundamentalism in the 1920s: Religious pamphlets by leading scientists of the Scopes era provide insight into public debates about science and religion) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1izzpVdNUUXpPbzjmtgu50iFydGyOrX5Z/view?usp=sharing
4.  (Alcohol Prohibition Was a Failure) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tGLtvD3dE_CNylrMh8DumdvAiYq2YyZ4/view?usp=sharing
5. ( The Harlem Renaissance: What Was It, and Why Does It Matter?) https://www.humanitiestexas.org/news/articles/harlem-renaissance-what-was-it-and-why-does-it-matter
6.  (Prosperity’s Child: Some Thoughts on the Flapper) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CVIEMZtgdUWSVGKCQhA85X_idaF17rsZ/view?usp=sharing
7. ( On Great Power Conflict: Entangled or Untangled Alliances?) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CSpKLnVMAByKd4rWUeOwEgyT7X-umMpM/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105902198107668066781&rtpof=true&sd=true
8. ( US Intervention and the New World Order: Lessons from Cold War and Post-Cold War Cases) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RwmO_2DB5PVE_upU6QdSOrozyD7aEK2h/view
9. (Kennedy’s Space Policy Reconsidered: A Post-Cold War Perspective) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iCGMLlSu7RJPRGqYCRPmiv0IkvAOS8B2/view
10. (The Nuclear Arms Race: Prisoner’s Dilemma or Perceptual Dilemma?) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k2nt_m2kOw2phaVCkypsKyv4mAi9fpqg/view
11. ( The United Nations and the Korean War: A Case Study) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b8152DrKAS6y__2NS3Qf_JGZp0CNdeqe/view
Write: Use this guide to properly write your precis https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BMeIuEGE_FGprTdIhQutGcZQpqaJNvRpm7RJYsis9dY/edit?usp=sharing

After your introduction (improved by the feedback you received in Week 5), you should present the main part of your paper in which you lay out the history of your topic, present evidence to support your thesis (the argument you are making), and end with a concluding section.
As with the draft introduction, it is beneficial if you re-read your final paper with “fresh eyes.” If it helps, think of yourself as a prosecuting attorney. Your introduction is your opening argument to the jury (what is the issue), the body of your paper is where you present historical evidence to the jury to support the argument made in your introduction, and your conclusion is your final statement to the jury in which you make a brief summation of your argument and the evidence that supports it.
Proofread your work before submitting it. That means take a break from your screen and then come back to your draft. You will have fresh eyes and a better ability to see what can be improved.

TOPIC — Drawn from Chapters 1 through 6 of Breisach’s Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, and supplemented by scholarly materials available through the APUS Online Library or elsewhere, write your own interpretative account of the evolution of historiography in either Greek or Roman civilization. In your summary, indicate the contributions of your selection (be it Greek or Roman) to early historical scholarship. In others words, the essay is about Greek or Roman historians in the context in which they wrote their histories – the essay is not about the legacy of Greek or Roman historians today. You may focus on one historian or a group of historians from either Greece or Rome. Many students often do little more than take notes from Breisach. This would be passable but it is not what I am looking for. It is for this reason that you must also do outside research on the topic. Use Breisach, but use other sources as well. You should also trust yourself – use what you know to discuss something with which you may not be completely familiar.
SOURCES – You will find lengthy passages from: The Ancient History Sourcebook 
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/asbook.asp
and the Internet Classics Archive 
https://classics.mit.edu/
The essays must target 1250 words and should begin with a clear and easily identifiable thesis statement and include a minimum of five primary and secondary sources. All essays must have a suitable title. Footnotes are required. All sources, as well as the bibliography, must conform to Turabian’s A Manual for Writers, 9th ed.
The essay you submit should be carefully scrutinized for errors. I tire quickly with essays that use “their” instead of “there” or “where” instead of “were.” Proofread, and then proofread some more. NOTE: In general, all-purpose internet sources cannot be used for citation purposes. Exceptions are the scholarly websites and documents available through the APUS Online Library, or other academic websites. While indeed useful for a quick reference, Wikipedia is not considered a valid academic source. [The HE is worth 10% of your final grade.]
ensure you use credible sources with this being one:
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, 3rd ed.
Chapters 1 through 7
Author / Editor Breisach, Ernst

It took nine of thirteen states to approve the Constitution and create the United States and the federal government of today, but what if they did not get the votes and there was no Constitution?  No federal government, no 1st, 13th, 15th, 19th amendments, etc., and states can make whatever laws they wanted. What would the states look like today without the federal government and laws? What rights would people have today in these states? Looking at the amendments listed above will give you some help, but feel free to choose other amendments, federal laws or civil rights, etc. Additionally, look at what some states are doing to people rights today to help you. You should examine states that existed before the Civil War, the North(east) and South for example. 
Read the discussion thoroughly, the rubric and criteria are on all discussions. 
RUBRIC: Your reply should be a minimum of eight sentences, and you should reply to two of your peers in at least three sentences each (for full points). Points will be deducted if you respond with less than eight (full) sentences and/or do not reply to a peer or peers; if you reply to a peer with one or two sentences; If you copy and paste peer replies (repetition). 20 points – your reply is a minimum of 8 sentences and reply to two peers with a minimum of 3 sentences each with no repetition, copy and paste. Replies should not be in fragment sentences, brief, standard replies. Your peer replies should not be standard, identical replies; For example, Peer One “John, I liked  your reply. You made some good points. I think you used good examples.” Peer Two “Jane, I liked  your reply. You made some good points. I think you used good examples.” Take the time to read and give in depth comments to your peers (for full points). 
All posts should be in your own words; nothing copy and pasted from outside sources and nothing AI generated. Any of these will result in you receiving zero points for the discussion. You need to state your opinion, words, your work, and this may take reading and assessing the information, critical thinking and asserting your opinion (thoughts). 

Many Rivers to Cross Written Assessment
video link

There are 34 questions but 50 Fill in the Blank answers.
Misspelled answers will be graded as incorrect – use spell check
Two points per correct answer. Total value of assessment = 100 points.
Type in your answers either in the blank space or immediately after the blank space.
For example ___Smith _____
or _______Smith
Use bold lettering if possible. DO NOT use color font lettering or color highlighting.
DO NOT create your own document. Download this document and then simply type in
your answers below, save the document using your name so that the doc may be
recognized, and submit it.
Before submitting ask yourself “have I used spell check to eliminate blue, red, or green
underlines? Because I know I will lose points if I have them when I turn my work in.”
Also ask yourself “Have I saved my document file with my NAME?” All submissions
should look like this JaneSmith.doc or JohnSmith.docx.
No title of document is needed just your NAME.
THE QUESTIONS
1. In what city does the film begin?
_______________.
2. During WWII President Roosevelt was forced by African American leaders to integrate
defense industry _______________.
3. According to the film because of WWII the auto industry stopped making cars and started
making _______________.
4. Who is the primary interviewer/narrator of the film? ____________________ (name).
5. What is this interviewer’s occupation? ___________________.
6. Who does the interviewer talk to first? ____________________ (name).
7. What is the occupation of the first person who is interviewed? _______________________
8. The film states during WWII that Detroit was know as the ____________________ (title).
9. A race war erupted in Detroit in _____________(year).
10. ____________ (number) African Americans were killed in these riots and another
___________ (number) were injured.
11. African Americans enthusiastically joined the WWII war effort with the expectation that
their service would earn them _____________ once and for all.
12. The black press mounted what was called the _____________ campaign . This name stood
for victory against ______________ (name) and ____________ (term) at home.
13. Film director _________________ (name) hosted a weekly political radio broadcast that on
one occasion devoted an entire show to the ____________ (name of victim) incident. The
incident involved an Army vet who had been _________ by a racist cop for cursing a bus driver.
14. In _______________ (year) white owned radio station ____________(name) in
____________ (city) switched to an all black music programming format.
15. During the segment on the radio station the narrator says that at this moment in time “across
the country black culture is becoming __________.”
16. ________________ (name) became the first African American nominated for an Academy
Award acting Oscar for a leading role.
17. The name of the movie that this person was nominated for? __________________ (it’s not
mentioned in the film).
18. _____________________ (name) was mentioned as being one of the first (and few) African
American celebrities to speak out against racial injustices.
19. In _________ (year) this celebrity (from #18) presented a petition to the ______________
(organization) charging America with crimes against African Americans.
20. The petition was entitled ____________________________(full title needed).
21.The Montgomery, Alabama bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat ironically
had an Ohio connection. It was the bus headed to ____________ Avenue.
22. Rosa Parks’ mug shot number was ____________.
23. ____________ ( number) children were taken out of the William Franz elementary school in
_____________ (city) by their parents on Nov. 14, 1960 when six year old ________________
(name) desegregated the school.
24. At timeline 24:40 in the film there is a shot of a famous painting that pays homage to the
events of Nov. 14th. Who was the artist who painted this homage? _____________. What year
was the painting completed ________? What was the name of the painting?
_________________ (none of these answers are mentioned in the film).
25. _______________ (city) became the first major city in the south to desegregate lunch
counter food service.
26. According to people interviewed ___________ (type of behavior) was not considered the
“style” of the Civil Rights Movement and did not receive support from the leadership of that
movement.
27. ______________ (name) founded the _______________ (name) which was a group that
used a more aggressive approach to fighting segregation.
28. The most successful black owned business in the U.S. in 1963 was _______________
(name). It was founded by _____________ (name). The business was located in _____________
(city).
29. In ____________ (year) Dr. King came to Detroit and gave a version of his soon to be
famous “I have a dream” speech.
30. In the film Malcolm X is called the _________ ( type of) )attorney against American racism.
Dr. King is called the _____________ (type of) attorney who attempts to negotiate between the
races.
31. March 7, 1965 became to be known as _______________ because of the attacks by police
against marchers attempting to walk from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama.
32. When President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act, that moment was
called the _______________ (term) of a decade of struggle for Civil Rights in America.
33. ____________ (name) became a young civil rights icon when he famously breaks with Dr.
King during a protest march on the issue of non-violent passive resistance to racist hate.
34. ____________! is the term this young icon invokes to signal that a change in strategy for the
next generation of black leaders had occurred.

Instructions.
Document Set #1: Defining Who and What an American Was in the Early 20th Century
Theodore Roosevelt’s True Americanism (1894)
The Klan Fights for Americanism (1926)
As the United States became a global power by the early 1900s, international and domestic forces pressed upon American society to begin attempting to redefine exactly who an American was. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution during the Reconstruction Era had defined citizenship in national terms and presumably applied to all those living in newly acquired territories around the globe. Coupled with the massive waves of European immigration, the nation grappled with incorporating so many people of incredibly diverse backgrounds and extending the associated rights and privileges that came with American citizenship. These two documents express the evolution of concerns that were generated through perceived threats (both real and imagined) to American society and culture and propose solutions to the critical question of who and what an American was in the early 20th century.
Answer the following two questions in an essay with a MINIMUM length of TWO (2) FULL PAGES:
1. What are the major arguments contained within each of these two documents? How do they compare to one another?
2. Are there parallels in their arguments to modern debates within American society? If so, in what specific way(s)?
Please remember to use specific evidence from these documents to support your arguments. 

For this presentation, choose a Francophone Speaking Country (i.e. French Speaking but NOT France) and discuss an aspect of its culture that you find interesting.
You will prepare a Power Point to present the topic to your peers.
In this presentation, you will compare/contrast this aspect with something about your own culture.
Make sure the information is accurate and relevant. Do not choose a complex topic.
This is in English. It should be at least 10 slides. You will receive points for the depth and quality of the information and your comments to peers. Possible topics: festivals, holidays, family, tv, vacations, important city, farming, music, etc. Remember you can compare or contrast.
You will be graded for your creativity, information, visuals, and comments to your peers.
NO SOURCES REQUIRED