Category: History

Describe the multifaceted legacy of Hernán Cortés. Examine how he can be interpreted as both a national hero and a founding figure of a new nation and people (mestizos), as well as a potential antagonist embodying the negative aspects of Spain’s engagement with the Americas and its indigenous civilizations.
Present your perspective on how modern Mexico and mestizos should regard Cortés more than 500 years after his arrival. Articulate whether he deserves veneration or condemnation in contemporary society.
Explore the ethical question of whether Spain should extend an apology to Mexico or Mexicans for the conquest of Mexico. Use the THREE sources I have linked in the files. One of them includes Chapter 16 of the book Volume 1 to 1600.  A History of World Societies. 11th edition by Wiesner-Hanks. I can provide pictures of the chapter. The other 2 sources are linked in files. 

Introduction and  clear stated Thesis (which is a position that needs to be proved.)
Introduction: this contains the substance for your topic. It is very important here to formulate the question that you want to answer in the correct way.
Arguments: are facts, phenomena of everyday life, events, situations and life experiences, scientific evidence, the opinions of scientists and so on. It is better to give at least  two arguments in support of the thesis.
Essay’s body: this contains the answer to the question. Each paragraph of an essay should contain just one basic thought, a thesis statement, evidence, illustrations and conclusions that partly answer the main question posed in the introduction.
In the end, an essay should have:
• Introduction + thesis,
• arguments supporting the thesis (here you’ll have the quotes with footnotes citations)
• a conclusion with a recap of the argument. don’t forget your beautiful citations in the Chicago Manual Style (footnotes) and the bibliography
Choose one of the following title:
How did the Manifest Destiny doctrine influence the Mexican-American War (1846-1848)? Describe the political and economic issues that triggered the war, and the implications for the U.S. Be sure to use supported evidence to build your argument(s).
To what extent did Californians of different gender and ethnicity set aside their differences to help with the war effort in California during War World II? What specific contributions did women and non-white citizens make to the war effort? Be sure to incorporate The Port Chicago Mutiny, by Robert L. Allen examples to build your argument(s).

For your Final, you are to write an argumentative essay that answers one of the provided prompts. Your paper must not only contain a central argument (thesis) backed with relevant evidence, but also balance between providing historical context, presenting specific details, and drawing connections to larger historical developments.
Here is the list of prompts (choose only one):
What caused the collapse of the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca civilizations?
How did the various nomadic peoples of Central Asia and East Asia influence the Silk Road during the Middle Ages?
How did the different dynasties of China (i.e. Sui, Tang/Zhou, Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties) influence the different peoples and polities of Central Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia during the Middle Ages?
How were the polities and peoples of Europe shaped by historical developments outside of Europe throughout the Middle Ages?
Page numbers should also be provided.
You must submit your assignment in either one of these formats: .doc, .docx, .pdf
DO NOT use any outside research for the Final—all relevant material can be found in the readings and textbook.
Not including citations will result in a significant loss of points.
You must provide a “Work Cited” page—placed on a separate page after your essay (which does not count in your page length). Consult the “Citing Sources” file in the “Important Documents and Information” module for how to do so. Presenting a format other than the MLA Format will result in a loss of points.
Not including a Work Cited Page will result in a significant loss of points.
Consult the “HIST 161: Example Paper with Formatting, Citations, and Work Cited Page for Argumentative Essay” for an example of formatting, citation placement, and a Work Cited Page.
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For your first draft of the essay you need to submit a complete draft for peer review, one with a beginning, middle, and ending of an essay (introduction, body, conclusion)–not just a paragraph or so, or an outline or some bullet points. You do not need to have MLA citation of sources, nor do you need to include a paragraph of reflection/explanation for your first draft.
Write an essay of at least 1000 words in which you discuss one aspect of our border policy. Use and establish a representative example from “Hole in the Fence”, “Hold the Line”, or “What Remains.” Use the techniques from Writing Analytically in order to generate your significant details from the text and your interpretation of them. Your approach should be analytical. A successful essay will establish a representative example from the text and examine the significance and implications of the idea/thesis that you are developing while making your thesis evolve. In other words, you are expanding one of your discussion observation posts to serve as a foundation for your essay with an evolving thesis.
Your essay should have the following requirements:
an analytical approach
a representative example from the reading that you are analyzing
an evolving thesis that results from examining complicating evidence.
Links to what you are writing about: https://radiolab.org/podcast/border-trilogy-part-1
https://radiolab.org/podcast/border-trilogy-part-2-hold-line
https://radiolab.org/podcast/border-trilogy-part-3-what-remains
The essay is about Border Patrol and the migrants that try to come to the US. Please listen to the episodes and then write a draft about the people that try to cross the border and pass away and other things that happen to them.

Question: Does Abraham Lincoln deserve the accolade “The Great Emancipator?” Say why/why not.
Please read it carefully: (Must follow all of them) 
NOTE: This paper will be submiited to Turnitin and can detect plagiarism and AI usage, please do not use Ai at all. 
1. This question constitutes a controversial issue in the Civil War period. Your job is to be the historian, take a stance on the issue, and use historical evidence from attached,  and the primary source book This Fiery Trial to substantiate your argument. You will not be graded on your point of view; but rather, you will be graded on how well you employ historical evidence in order to prove your thesis statement and your supporting arguments. Also, I have included the rules for good historical essays and a breakdown. Your essay should be structured in a similar way.
Breakdown: 
Good historical essays are sharply focused on a limited topic.
Historical essays should have a clearly stated argument (thesis).
Historical essays are built, step by step, on carefully acknowledged evidence.
Historical essays should include original, dispassionate thoughts of the author.
History essays are clearly written with an intended audience in mind.
Basic Principles for History Essays:  (Make sure to follow below) 
Introduction: 
Body: 
(First Argument)
(Second Argument) 
(Third Argument)
(Forth Argument) 
Conclusion: 
2. What is important for this essay is quality of your explanation and on the breadth and suitability of the historical examples given. Your essay should be relevant to the question, and the information presented in a clear, logical and coherent fashion.
3. You must cite your sources! MLA Format 
4. Please review attached lectures and use them as your resource, make sure if you are using any outside resourse cite them properly in MLA format!!!!! (At least one source must be from the provided lecture) 
5. one rule historians live by is to always contextualize their subject! That means that when you judge Lincoln in your essay, you may not judge him against 21st century standards. To hold a historical subject against one’s own modern standards makes for very bad history. Therefore, when you examine Lincoln or cast your judgment on him, compare him to his peers and judge him against the standards of the 19th century. This will make you sound like a professional and objective historian.

Rewrite this Essay Using any 2 Primary sources from chapter 1 to 14 from those available in YAWP: https://www.americanyawp.com/
*** Primary sources can be found at the end of every chapter of YAWP under the heading “Primary Sources.” Use quotes from these primary sources and then analyze what they mean. How do these quotes support your argument? Cite your sources within the paper and with a works cited list at the end of the paper.
Here is the prompt: What does this source tell us about the construction of race in America?
Your paper should include the following elements:
Include the context for one of the two the source – when it was written, who wrote it, what events it relates to in history.
Quotes from that source – pick out parts of the source that relate to the prompt question. (If you use an image, you should describe specific parts of that image)
Analysis of the quotes – explain what the quotes you chose mean, especially relating to the prompt question
In one or two paragraph, bring in a second primary source from YAWP and talk about how it relates to the first source and the prompt. Use quotes and provide analysis to show how what the second author is says relates to the arguments of your main source.
Citations – footnotes and a bibliography.
Primary Source Analysis Guidelines:
Make sure to focus on the question you are answering but also think about the following analytic questions:
Who is the author/creator of the source? What is their point of view?
What are the main points/ideas of the source?
Who is the intended audience of the source?
How does the author craft their information for their intended audience? What message(s) are they trying to send?
What is happening in the time and place where the source was written? How does the source fit into the broader context?
How does the author understanding the issue they are writing about?
How do you view what the author is saying?
Answer the prompt: Your paper needs answer one of the questions posed
Evidence: Your paper should use evidence from the source to defend your answer to the prompt
Analysis: How well you explain the reasons your evidence and how it relates to the prompt
Organization: Your paper should be clearly organized so the reader can follow your analysis and thought process
Clarity: Your paper should be clearly written
***The parts that I highlight in yellow is the part that needed to rewite using Primary Sources because I was using the textbook to write so you can delete it. But just choose 2 Primary sources and write based on the introduction. 
I attached the files below

Research papers often start by first submitting a proposal
This assignment will be a start to the written assignment due at the end of Week Six. For this assignment, you will need to start your research. You are allowed to choose your own topic, as long as it fits the the subject and time period of this course – American history before 1877. This means no papers on Hitler or the Holocaust, or Richard Nixon, World War II or the Great Depression, or anything else that is outside either the course time frame or subject area. If you are unsure if your topic is acceptable, please contact your instructor. Also, you want a topic that can be done in a three page paper. The entire Civil War – not so much. But a specific battle or person from the war, yes.
Then work through the following form. Formulate a thesis statement – an argument. List three aspect of your topic that you will use to support your thesis. An important note about your questions – you should formulate your questions before you look for sources. The questions should be related, part of a coherent whole, and not simply drawn from three different sources. If you create the questions only after finding sources, it’s very easy to end up with three entirely different questions that have nothing to do with each other. That will turn your three page paper into what amounts to three separate even shorter papers, which is not what I want. The questions do not have to be super-specific, just related to the general topic. The questions can then lead you to sources, rather than just randomly selecting sources from search results. Then find three scholarly sources for your research. Scholarly means peer-reviewed or published by an academic or scholarly publisher. Note that encyclopedias and sites like history.com are NOT scholarly sources. The APUS Trefry Library is a good place to look for such sources, as is the Google Scholar search engine. These are required to be primary and secondary sources. These need to be formatted according to the style guidelines you choose – APA, MLA, or Chicago Manual of Style.
Please use the following format for this assignment and submit your proposal as a Word document. The format is also attached as a Blank Form you can download and fill in.
The Proposal is due on Sunday by 11:55 PM, ET.
Name:
Topic: Thesis Statement: This is usually one to two sentences that summarizes the point of the paper. It states the argument of the paper and includes your conclusions.
Topic Subsections: List three related aspects of your chosen topic that you plan to develop in the paper. The intent here is to keep a manageable and relatively narrow focus for the paper, and not end up going off in three wildly different directions.
1.
2. 3. Sources: Note that sources should be in alphabetic order by author’s last name / title.
Name of source and proper citation according to MLA, APA, or Chicago Manual of Style format: One paragraph summary indicating what the source is and why you think it will be important for your project.
Name of source and proper citation according to MLA, APA, or Chicago Manual of Style format:
One paragraph summary indicating what the source is and why you think it will be important for your project.
Name of source and proper citation according to MLA, APA, or Chicago Manual of Style format: One paragraph summary indicating what the source is and why you think it will be important for your project.
The short paper must include a cover page with your name, course number and course title, instructor’s name, and date. You must also include a bibliography at the end of your paper. While composing your paper, use proper English. Do not use abbreviations, contractions, informal language, passive voice, or first/ second person (I, you, we, our, etc). And finally, students are NOT allowed to use encyclopedias or Wikipedia.

Answer the following question “How has George McRae’s design of the QVB impacted the ways in which the building has been understood and used since its construction?” The building we are writing about is the queen Victoria building in Sydney Australia 

For this Discussion Board, please complete the following:
Dr. King’s 1963 March on Washington was the largest civil rights protest in American history. It helped drive change. This included the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Jim Crow laws were dismantled in the South. Voter registration increased during the Freedom Summer of 1964. In 1965, Johnson outlawed discriminatory voting practices by signing the Voting Rights Act. Three years later, and just a few days after the assassination of Dr. King, Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act. This act banned discrimination in housing. It also increased protection of Native American rights.
Watch this video to learn more about these key acts. As you can imagine, these acts have impacted people of many different groups—race, sex, national origin, religion, and more.
Choose one of these acts:
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Fair Housing Act of 1968
Then, respond to the following questions:
How has the act you chose impacted your neighborhood, town, or workplace? 
What progress do you hope to see in the future?

** will need to use the class book reading as the sources cant use outside sources. Compose an essay, 1000 words minimum, that addresses all the parts of the question above. Use only the secondary and primary sources provided in our readings and on the course site. Aim to use at least half of the primary sources as the main evidence to support your analysis.
essay questions:
A common image of medieval Europe invented in the 10th century was the Three Orders of Chistendom comprised of clergymen, nobles, and laborers. How accurately did this schema reflect the reality of medieval society as it developed after 1000? What groups were left out? How would characterize the makeup of medieval society? Ask yourself these questions before you submit your essay. They all reflect what’s in the rubric and on the discussion boards. These are what I look for as I evaluate your essay. Watch the video on rewrites for more on all this. Hope it helps!
1. Do I open with an introduction that lays out all the parts of the question and situates the topic in historical context? 2. Do I address each part of the question using only the images and primary sources provided on the course site and in our textbook? Don’t use outside materials!
3. Do I use paragraphs to group together at least two sources/images to support each of my main points as I address each part of the question? Three is even better!
4. Do I identify each image and source’s point of view? Who wrote it? When? Audience and purpose? Kind of document? Don’t just number the source!
5. Do I analyze how the sources relate to the question or do I simply just describe them with little reference back to the question?
6. Do I make sweeping generalizations and use anachronisms*? Or instead do I limit my analysis to what the evidence supports and keep focused on the historical context?
7. Do I address change over time in my analysis? Do I use the textbook to connect my essay to relevant historical trends?
8. Do the sections of my essay buiild one to the next? How does the point I just made in one paragraph lead to the next one I plan to make?
9. Do I close with a conclusion that sums up the main takeaways of the essay, including change over time?
10. Did I proofread my essay to correct errors and improve its clarity and organization?
* An anachronism is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of people, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods. Anything that is out of its historical time and place is an anachronism. A common example is to apply standards and norms from today that were different from those in the past, to say, for example, that people have always wanted to be equal or that women have always worked in the home. Those are both sweeping generalizations and anachronistic.