Category: History

analyze a primary document

This will be the first week when you will analyze a primary document. First, watch this episode of History Detectives: A Mormon Tale-https://www.pbs.org/video/history-detectives-1856-mormon-tale/ Then, read the Authorized Rules of the Shakers-https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175000041197&view=1up&seq=6&size=300 Then, read this primary document written by Mary Dyer, a woman whose husband and children joined the Shakers.-https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082356829&view=1up&seq=7 Pick …

Analyzing Political Cartoon – HIS206

Cartoon Choice 1: The Big Stick in the Caribbean Sea (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Tr-bigstick-cartoon.JPG) Closely read all the sections of course text chapters 4, 5, and 6 which cover U.S. involvement in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the Roosevelt Corollary.Complete the Analyzing Primary Sources activity located in Chapter 4, Section …

Epic Changes In Africa, Asia, And The Middle East

  Required ResourcesRead/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 14, 15 Lesson Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook) InstructionsFor the initial post, address one of the following: Option 1: Middle EastExamine the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict from its beginnings some 4000 years ago …

Paper Over Humanities

Read over the section labeled Rome’s Imperial Crisis and the Rise of Constantine.  Write a summary of the information you learned in this section.  Your response should be two pages.  It should be done using MLA format and you should use three sources.  

Assignment 1.2 A Changing World Final Paper

Assignment 1.2: A Changing World Final PaperDue Week 5 and worth 140 points The discovery of America and that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two (2) greatest events recorded in the history of [human] kind Adam Smith, in The Wealth …

Tennessee History

Focus Questions: How did the War of 1812 influence future U.S. and Tennessee politics? Before the Indian Removal Treaty of 1835, what 6 treaties did Tennessee have with Native Americans?Which of the 6 treaties provided the legal rationale for the Cherokee Removal act of 1836? What were the justifications provided …

Weapons of mass destruction

State your Research Topic, Objective/Purpose and Research Question(s).List and label the dependent and independent variables.State the null and alternate hypotheses.What quantitative methods could be used to address your research question(s)? Describe any that could be applied.Which would be the most appropriate? Why? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

Weapons of mass destruction

The literature review builds on the annotated bibliography. For the topic you chose for your annotated bibliography in Module 2, complete the following: Go through your annotated bibliography.Based on the information presented in your annotated bibliography sources (and others if needed), define a problem statement that, in your opinion, would …

History Response Paper

My professor told me that 1) simply report on the primary source by using the source to answer the questions below. In your Response Paper, you can just list the questions as they are here and answer them in full sentences. For some of the sources, the answers will be, …

W4

It is 1978.  Mao has been dead for two years, and you have passed the examination to become a member of an elite university class in Historical Documentation.  Your first assignment is to collect two oral histories that provide different angles on the topic: What is your understanding of the …