What role, in your life, have classes like this one played? Did they make you anti-American or, a more informed one – how so or, how not? What are the barriers to the education of Latino/as and, how might they be overcome? In your experience, what way has public education changed for Latino and Latina […]

Option 1: What role did empire play in the outbreak of World War I and in the war itself? And how did the experiences of continental empires, overseas empires, and colonial subjects differ during the war, and what impacts did this have?

1. What role did slavery play in the internal economy of sub-Saharan Africa? 2. What caused tensions between Afrikaners and the British in southern Africa? 3. What were the causes of the late-nineteenth-century new imperialism?

BEFORE THE ATOMIC BOMBS WERE DROOPED ON JAPAN, What role could nuclear weapons and the circumstances of their potential first use against Japan be expected to play in shaping postwar international relations and public attitudes?

Statistics and Forecasts for World Religions: 1800 – 2025 http://christianityinview.com/relgion-statistics.html Based on the materials found in Reading, answer the following questions in paragraph form: What religion experienced the greatest increase, both in percentage and in numbers, between 1800 and 2014? What religion experienced the lowest increased, both in percentage and in numbers, between 1800 and […]

What philosophy of colonialism does Chinua Achebe’s account in “Things Fall Apart” illustrate? What are the “things that fall apart”? How do the missionaries in this account win over converts among the native Ibo people of Nigeria?

1. What methods did the American government & especially Andrew Jackson (bastard) use to steal Indian land and lead to the death of thousands of them? List at least 5 of Jackson’s specific actions to exterminate Indians in order to steal land. 2. How were the Seminole different from other tribes in make-up and reaction […]

Historical Voices: “Women in the Factories”?What lessons are being learned by Loughnan by working in a munitions factory? What specifically is she learning about gender and class? What did she learn about men and lower-class working women while working in the munitions factor? What did she learn about herself? What groups has she become more […]

What led to the collapse of the US-Soviet alliance after World War II. Secondly, in turning Eastern Europe (and later parts of Asia and Africa) into locations of proxy conflicts between East and West, were the superpowers replicating past models of Western imperialism, or was their thinking something fundamentally new?

What is the significance of the Portuguese empire in shaping the rise of transatlantic slavery from Africa to Brazil? Why was the Haitian Revolution a globally significant event that was long overlooked in undergraduate history courses? Please draw on the assigned essay by Laurent Dubois. Why is urbanization important for understanding class and politics during […]