Over the whole of the semester you will have noticed the diversity of women’s experiences and perspectives through each historical era we have covered in the course. However, the modern period is often represented as offering the widest range of diversity within women’s activists groups and what is referred to as the “feminist movement.” For example, chapter 11 features sections on “liberal feminism,” women in […]

Write a 3 to 5-page paper in which you address the following thoroughly. Cite specifics from research wherever possible to support your paper: Examine the history of the Indonesian Navy. Identify and summarize the current countries allied and train with the Indonesian Navy. Identify and summarize the Indonesian current naval capability. Use at least Four quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar […]

INSTRUCTIONS Your Final Exam is to write your personal manifesto.  A personal manifesto is historical writing that reflects on the person that writes it, that person’s history, and that person’s goals and dreams. This should be a total of THREE PAGES and a Works Cited Page. Make sure you use MLA format for your opening heading and Works cited page. The core idea here is […]

Please refer to the Syllabus instructions for Discussion Forum posts and follow instructions for length and quotation requirements. (10 sentences, choose one of these three to answer) The reading material for this week can be hard to take. However, we want to bear witness to the atrocities of the past and the choices people made. This is part of building historical consciousness so that our present […]

Watch movie “Machucha” (link can be provided) and write a 3 page paper responding to the following questions. Include introduction paragraph. Each question can be its own paragraph. If use outside resources, cite in text and with MLA bibliography. Why did Allende’s democratic socialist revolution fail? How are race and ethnicity characterized in the film? In our primary sources we see both sides, a torturer […]

[1,250 to 1,500 word-count] The customized assignment can be imagined as a proposal for a research paper. The student will have considerable freedom to identify a Cold War geographic, chronologic, or thematic hot spot, do some preliminary research, sketch its parameters and discuss its relevance to the themes of the course. This assignment will be as much about the process as the end-result. The student […]

This past Summer I went to New Orleans on a family trip to experience food, entertainment, and the outdoors. Once we arrived we quickly found out that New Orleans has a vibrant tourism industry built around the issue of slavery. There are many tours to various landmarks within the city but the big excursion is to an actual former slave plantation that has been converted […]

Answer the following question with a minimum of 250 words. Be sure to cite from the Davidson text ( Little History of the United States, Davidson 978-0-300-18141-8). Compare and contrast the Spanish and English conquest of the New World. Your answer should at a minimum address how Spanish and English colonists dealt with indigenous peoples; to what extent, or in what ways religion influenced each […]

Watch “The Mission”, (will provide a link if needed) and write a response paper. The primary sources for this week and The Mission both discuss the destruction of the Americas after the arrival of the Spanish and Portuguese during the early years of colonialism. What were the major rifts between the priests and the imperial administrators and settlers? The film employed indigenous actors (the Onanís of Colombia) […]

Communism as a political and economic force has been a major factor in global affairs for around one hundred years. The United States, and most of the west, considers it to be fundamentally evil and flawed, whereas others have (and still do) think of it as a great step forward in human civilization. What seems to have been proven, however, is that does not work. […]