The Twenties and the Cultural Divide   5 Prohibition Disposal(9).jpg   “5 Prohibition Disposal(9)opens in a new window” by Unknown – Vintage periods. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commonsopens in a new window.   After you have read the documents and essays in chapter 7:   Discuss whether the 1920s were a decade of […]

Debating World War I  “President Woodrow Wilsonopens in a new window” by Harris & Ewing – National Star-Spangled Banner Centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914opens in a new window (1914).. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commonsopens in a new window.   The documents in chapter 6 offer a sense of how Americans […]

Evaluating the Progressives   Noordam-delegates-1915.jpg   “Noordam-delegates-1915opens in a new window” by Bain News Service, publisher – This imageopens in a new window is available from the United States Library of Congressopens in a new window Prints and Photographs division. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commonsopens in a new window.   The documents in […]

Enraged by a guerrilla massacre of U.S. troops on the Island of Samar, General Jacob H. Smith retaliated by carrying out an indiscriminate attack upon its inhabitants. His order “KILL EVERY ONE OVER TEN” became a caption in the New York Journal cartoon on May 5, 1902. The Old Glory draped an American shield on […]

Book Review   This assignment ask you to write a critical book review. The goals of the book review are to introduce you to another typical form of scholarly writing and to help you continue to develop materials that you can use for your final research paper. Here’s what I’d like you to do:   […]

This assignment is aimed at continuing to help you develop your final research essay for this course. It will help you continue to develop the research and critical reading skills that we began working on in the documents based analysis in Module 2, and will add a different set of historical materials to the documents […]

Documents Analysis Mulberry Bend-Jacob Riis.jpg   “Mulberry Bend-Jacob Riisopens in a new window” by Jacob Riis – http://italophiles.com/mulberry.htmopens in a new window. Licensed under Public Domain via Commonsopens in a new window.   As noted in the Course Introduction Materials, all of the written assignments, including this one, are aimed at helping you produce a […]

Research essay abstract In Module 2, you identified a topic for your final research essay and prepared a short analysis based on documents about that topic. This assignment should help prepare you for the next phase of the research essay writing process, which is to prepare an “abstract” for your project.   An abstract is […]

Poor People’s March at Lafayette Park ppmsca.04302.jpg “Poor People’s March at Lafayette Parkopens in a new window” by Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report – This image is available from the United States Library of Congressopens in a new window’s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.04302opens in a new window. […]

Research Skills Tutorial   “Adams Corner – Schulhaus 2opens in a new window” by Wolfgang Sauber – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0opens in a new window via Commonsopens in a new window.   This initial assignment is designed to help you gauge your understanding of some of the basic research skills we’ll be […]