History

TOPIC: THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN Must contain four paragraphs that describe 1.Why you chose your person 2. Biographical information 3. The historical and social importance of your person 4. The legacy of your person. Cite three primary sources in your post. Primary sources are sources from the time period. Review the slide show on primary sources on this website: http://www.library.illinois.edu/village/primarysource/mod1/pg1.htm. Then, locate three primary sources on your person and post it to this discussion.   Include at least three primary sources (sources from the time period). When citing your primary sources, make sure to include the creator of the source, title of the source, and date of the source. The Library of Congress www.loc.gov (Links to an external site.) is the largest library in the US and houses many primary sources in its Digital Collection. You can find millions of primary sources at the Library of Congress.

Jerry Adler and Nicholas Toth both present arguments linking our earliest inventions to human evolution.  What arguments does each of them present, and what links between human physical development and stone tools and the ability to control and create fire do they establish?  Then, after reading the Hodges chapter and the Adler article and watching the videos on Making Stone Tools and Making Fire, to what extent do you think the invention of stone tools and the ability to create and control fire might have influenced the development not only of human bodies but also of human social groups and human culture/society? Read Hodges, “Chapter 2: From Savage Hunter to Primitive Farmer: The New Skills and Tools Essential to Stock-Raising and Agriculture” (21-31) 3.  Read Jerry Adler, “Why Fire Makes us Human” 4.  Look at the Stone Tools pdf 5.  Watch Nicholas Toth, “Big History Project: Making Stone Tools” (Length: 7:48) 6.  Watch “Making Fire” (Length 4:10) and “Primitive Fire from Stones” (Length: 2:01) Website-https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-fire-makes-us-human-72989884/ (Jerry Adler Why Fire Makes Us Human) PDF- file:///C:/Users/brand/Downloads/Hodges,%20Ch.%202(1).pdf (Hodges, “Chapter 2: From Savage Hunter to Primitive Farmer: The New Skills and Tools Essential to Stock-Raising and Agriculture” (21-31) (Nicholas Toth, “Big History Project: Making Stone Tools” (Length: 7:48) ( Watch “Making Fire” (Length 4:10) and “Primitive Fire from Stones” (Length: 2:01)

This is a reflective writing assignment on the question “Which historical event would you have liked to see?” In this assignment, you must explain why you would have liked to see the construction of the Great Library of Alexandria. You can explain for example why the Library of Alexandria is so compelling and its historical significance. The text must be written in the first person; no need to put any reference. Answer the question straightforwardly; do not write any introduction or conclusion.

Answer the questions below based on the assigned document:  A. What is the name of your assigned document?  B. Based on your assigned document, what does your source tell us about lynching and/or the anti-lynching crusade (three sentences)?  C. Provide and analyze two quotes from your document that are examples of what your document tells us about lynching and.or the anti-lynching crusade

Topic and Research Questions. Topic: For my historical event analysis, I have chosen The Creation of Alaska Native Corporations. Research Question: What were some of the economic advantages and disadvantages in the creation of the Alaska Native Corporations?

Art History Question: Describe one artifact found in the art history site from one of the Mesoamerican periods and explain 3 characteristic that made artifact interesting to you.

Choose a sentence or two (no more than two) from either Peter Brown’s “The Notion of Virginity in the Early Church,” Yikzhak Hen’s “Converting the Barbarian West,” or Hen’s “The Early Medieval Barbatoria” that you find interesting as well as helpful in making sense of a particular aspect, detail, or idea found in one of the following primary sources: “The Edict of Milan” “Santa Maria Antiqua Sarcophagus” “Rule of St. Benedict” “Prayers for Him, Whose Beard is Shaven for the First Time” IMPORTANT NOTE: You may not use a passage from Hen’s “Converting the Barbarian West” or his “The Early Medieval Barbatoria” to comment on an aspect, detail or idea found in “Prayer for Him, Whose Beard is Shaven for the First Time.”  That would just be too easy!   In the 1-2 pages that follow I ask that you: Include the sentence or two from your secondary source at the very beginning of your essay (as an indented block quotation is fine). Orient your reader to where (in terms of the overall argument of your secondary source) this passage appears. Describes in your own words the content of your passage. In other words, what is the information that this passage conveys? Introduce (with full title and date) and orient your reader to the primary source you have chosen (from the list above) Identify a particular detail, aspect, or idea in your primary source that you find interesting. Explain why you find that detail, aspect, or idea interesting. Craft an argument about how your secondary-source passage offers an effective means of coming to a new understanding of that particular detail, aspect, or idea found in your primary source.   Formatting Guidelines: Use 12-point Times New Roman font Margins of no more than 1 inch Cite your source using proper MLA in-text citation. You do not need a “Works Cited” page, however. For a quick and easy guide for how to do proper MLA in-text citation see: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html  (Links to an external site.) Glossary: To Orient/Orienting: Bits of information, explanation, and summary that orient the reader.  The amount of orienting, or context, a writer provides depends on readers’ likely expertise in the subject.  Even experts require some orienting; those with less expertise require more.  For the purposes of this class, assume your reader is a college freshman. Argument: An arguable claim—i.e., an assertion someone could reasonably argue against; as such, it provides unexpected insight, goes beyond superficial interpretations, or challenges, corrects, or extends other arguments.

What is happening to the world’s water supply? 2.  What social problems have been created, in both the short and long term, by the difference between supply or water and the need for water?  In other words, who has water and who does not and what are the politcal and social consequences of that reality? 3.  What does the privatization of water mean? 4.  What are some of the actions individuals and groups are taking? 5.  How does all of this impact us? 6.  How is the water crisis a national issue? 7.  What action relative to the federal government might you take as a concerned citizen of the United States? watch the movie on youtube the Blue Gold Water Wars

A brief description of the subject, aim, and scope of the book.  An outline of its thesis and its bias A detailed assessment of the author’s main contentions An evaluation of the book’s major strengths and weaknesses An assessment of the book’s place in the literature of its subject. i.e. why did the author write it? Why do we need another book on this subject? Have other historians discussed (or not discussed) this subject? Do not simply summarize the book’s content, but definitely provide a brief summary. Page numbers for quotations as well. No Plagiarism

One of the main jobs of historians is to interpret the past by reviewing primary documents, scholarly secondary sources, and then creating an analysis of this research. After reading your text and reviewing the assigned materials, submit a thesis-driven paper on the roles of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois in the Early Civil Rights Movement.You might want to consider the following questions, but you are not limited to them: How were these men and their ideas similar? How were they different? What might have contributed to these similarities and differences? How did their strategies for black advancement, plans for education, and approaches to “race” relations differ? At the turn of the twentieth century, whose position represented the best hope for progress? This assignment should be 500 words in length. For full credit, your paper must not simply sum up the reading or repeat points made there. Rather, I am looking for you to create your own interpretation and discuss some original insight. Include Turabian-style citations as needed. Be sure to stay in third-person throughout the paper. Also, insure that you upload one of the approved SafeAssign file types, and click the SafeAssign box during the submission process. Failure to submit an approved file type or to submit the paper through the SafeAssign plagiarism checker will result in a zero for the assignment. Finally, there will be no individual extensions for any reason, and to discourage procrastination, I will not answer questions about the assignment on the day it is due. By submitting this paper, you agree: (1) that you are submitting your paper to be used and stored as part of the SafeAssign™ services in accordance with the Blackboard Privacy Policy; (2) that your institution may use your paper in accordance with your institution’s policies; and (3) that your use of SafeAssign will be without recourse against Blackboard Inc. and its affiliates.