Eugenics Eugenics Primary Description and Aims: This assignment is designed to have you interrogate a group of primary sources, reflect on their value, and to generate research questions. It is a skill that one needs to be successful in senior-level history classes and one that will be useful in many future career paths. You essentially […]
Jim Crow Laws Summarize Jim Crow laws in the US and their impact on the criminal justice system
Organization Analysis Question/Prompt: For this assignment, you will choose 1 group, organization, etc. that is actively involved in engaging the culture. Possible groups include (but are not limited to): Heritage Foundation Patriot Academy Leadership Institute Liberty Counsel Live Action State specific organization such as the Texas Public Policy Foundation The goal is to explain and […]
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (10% Plan) – Lincoln Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan Congressional Reconstruction Plan (Congress) Then, address one (1) of the following for your selections: Analyze if the South should have been treated as a defeated nation or as rebellious states. Explain how the American culture and society changed in the North versus […]
For the initial post, pick three (3) of the leading causes of the American Civil War: The Compromise of 1850 The Fugitive Slave Law 1850 Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 The Kansas Nebraska Act 1854 The Dred Scott Case of 1857 The Lincoln Douglas Debates 1858 Then, address one (1) of the following for your selections: […]
Rebecca Gratz Each student should choose a person from the list below (or you may choose another important American Jewish Personality with my approval)and write an approximately five to ten-page paper on that individual’s contribution to American Jewish History. The paper should consist of a brief biography of the individual and the importance of […]
Timothy Ryback, “Rock around the bloc” Name and discuss in 1-2 sentences each three features of pop music, and especially rock and roll, that made it such an important challenge to the Soviet system. Name three ways that late 1960s Soviet authorities tried to control access to what they deemed decadent forms of popular […]
Chechnya Michael McFaul, “Eurasia Letter: Russian Politics after Chechnya” Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, “Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution” pp. 15-37, 99-120, Why did the first Chechen War break out in the early to mid 1990s? What was happening in Russia and in Chechnya that precipitated this intervention?156-178. Why […]
Secondhand Time – 2 articles Two excerpts from Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets: An Oral History. Tr. Bela Shayevich, (NewYork: Random House, 2016). In the introduction to Secondhand Time (excerpted in the Times Literary Supplement), Svetlana Alexievich asserts that Homo Sovieticus (the Soviet person) found it difficult to make the transition […]
Chernobyl What were some of the “clues” that something was “off” (as in: not right) in Pripyat in April 1986? Name and discuss three “clues”. How did the Soviet government initially respond to the meltdown of the reactor at Chernobyl? How did it deal with the actual meltdown? With the advice given by experts […]
