History

Both Herodotus and Mandeville describe a variety of peoples in their texts, but their views and comments on those peoples are very much colored by the societies that they themselves come from. In fact, most scholars agree that as we try to make sense of “the other,” we are actually making sense of ourselves. Your […]

For this the second part of our Toronto Historical Labor Sites: Research Assignment you will need to hand in a well-researched project on a location in Toronto that is significant to labor history in Canada. Assignment Guidelines   This 4-6 page (minimum: 1500 words) double-spaced essay will describe the significance, the physical properties and specific […]

Simply read the textbook chapters and answer each question below in details: Question 1 from Chapter 15: Historian James McPherson maintains the Kansas-Nebraska Act “may have been the most important single event pushing the nation toward civil war.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why? Question 2 from Chapter 16: What was there about Abraham Lincoln’s […]

Choose one quotation (of any length) from Part 4 (pg 283-370) or 5 (pg 373-end) of Erika Lee’s book and discuss where and why you think it should be presented outside this / an Asian American Studies course. Essentially, what is your takeaway from that portion of Erika Lee’s The Making of Asian America: A […]

Cold War-era shaped many aspects of Western societies. The struggle between West and East was fundamentally about what issues? What factors contributed to the demise of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc?         So much stress and so little time? We’ve got you covered. Get your paper proofread, edited or written […]

Source Assignment Essay: After reading the experts from Plain Folks and the book Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, write a 3-4 page paper answering the following question. Did the Gilded Age and Progressive Era have an impact on immigrants? What was that impact? Did it differ depending on gender? There were many ways in which the […]

We are starting Historical Criticism. Read Chapter 6 on Historical Criticism with all the examples and all the exercises. This type of criticism requires research, since you need to know about the authors’ lives, time period, etc.   For the writing assignment for this week, you will answer the following questions. There is a Spanish movie […]

The purpose of this assignment is for students to practice the anthropological skills of observing, recording, identifying patterns in, and describing people’s behavior in a public space. It involves writing fieldnotes during 20 to 25 minutes of observation of people in an outdoor public space, and then, based on your fieldnotes, writing an ethnographic description of what […]

The social reform movements of the 19th Century worked to reform the issues of slavery, religious freedom, and women’s rights, among others. However, one marginalized culture would not bene?t from this progress, the Indigenous people of the American Southeast. The “Five Civilized” tribes were removed from the Southeast, although many had adopted American customs and […]

Length: 5-7 pages (1 page questions, 4-6 pages report/analysis) Must be uploaded as .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf For this paper, you will be engaging in a short oral history project involving data collection, analysis and presentation. Each student will choose a particular event in African-American history (or American history that is relevant to the […]