Category: History

Compare and contrast 
Frantz Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth,” and Mouloud Feraoun’s “Journal, 1955-1962,” on in 5-7pp. In either case, pick a central problem or theme both works address. To what extent do they share a vision of class conflict, Revolution, historical change, gender, or progress? Where do they part company? Your thesis must be the last sentence of your first paragraph and provide a clear, analytical claim about the relationship between the two works. Each topic sentence must build your case logically and refer back to your thesis. Pick a handful of quotes — enough to support your claims but not so many as to crowd out your own voice — to support your claims. Remember not to let quotes speak for themselves. Introduce them and then unpack them, in your own words. Successful papers will present a clear argument and defend it systematically, moving from one work to the next. Do not jump back and forth between the two works. Do not consult outside sources. 

Directions
Tour two museum exhibits related to a historical topic of your choice. These can be exhibits in two different museums or exhibits within the same museum. You have several options for your tours, and you can combine any of these options:
virtual museum exhibits from the list below
virtual museum tour not on the list
in-person museum tour
Specifically, you must address the following: 
Describe the two museum exhibits you selected.
What is the name and location of the museum holding each exhibit?
What is the topic or event represented by each exhibit?
What are some aspects of the exhibits that you found interesting?
Describe the historical context for two specific artifacts from each exhibit.
How is each artifact related to the historical event?
How does the exhibit explain the importance of the artifact?
Summarize how each museum exhibit presents the historical narrative.
What story does the exhibit tell about the historical topic?
How do the artifacts included in the exhibit tell the historical narrative?
Summarize how one of the exhibits shows how elements of the past can relate to events in the present.
What have you learned about the historical topic?
Why do you think this is an important topic for a museum exhibit?
What connections do you see to current issues today? 
What to Submit
Submit your short paper as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Be sure to cite the museum exhibits and any other sources you use for this assignment according to APA style.
Alternatively, Brightspace allows the use of video notes. You may optionally use the Video Note tool to complete this assignment as long as you refer to your sources verbally throughout your video and submit a separate references page. If you use Video Note, your video should be 2 to 5 minutes long. If you need assistance using Video Note, please refer to the resources in the Start Here module.
Supporting Materials
The following resources support your work on this assignment:
Virtual Museum Exhibits
Choose a museum from this list to visit virtually or choose your own virtual exhibit from the many options online, and browse for artifacts: 
Website: Sojourner Truth National Women’s History Museum (Washington, DC) 
Website: Sojourner Truth Collection National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington, DC)
Website: Museum of the American Revolution (Philadelphia, PA) 
Website: American Battlefield Trust (U.S.) 
Website: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington DC) 
Website: Montreal Holocaust Museum (Montreal, Canada) 
Website: The Palace Museum (Beijing, China) 
Website: The British Museum (London, England) 
Website: Bastogne War Museum (Bastogne, Belgium) 
Website: National Women’s History Museum (U.S.) (Dublin, Ireland)
Website: Tokyo National Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
Website: National Museum of Korea (Seoul, South Korea)
Website: Apartheid Museum (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Website: Museo Larco (Lima, Peru)

. What is the concept of judicial review? Trace the evolution of the doctrine under Chief Justice John Marshall. What cases were important in the development of this doctrine?

Exploring the impact of spiritual resistance on enslaved Communities in the African Diaspora and its role in preserving cultural identity and fostering resilience ? How did spiritual practice among enslave people contribute to their quest for freedom and autonomy ? 
Write a research paper, that identifies and draws upon at least five (5), primary, sources, in addition to secondary works. All papers must be accompanied by notes and a bibliography, citing all sources of information used in the paper.

All discussion assignment participation should be informed by your critical synthesis of assigned reading, supplemental resources and additional research.
For your weekly “initial post,” you must address the assigned questions/topics with a thoughtfully-constructed response.
All initial posts should be cogently argued and supported by a minimum of two credible source citations from assigned or supplemental reading (ideally, with 50% or more citations from additional research via peer-reviewed journal articles or credible book chapters) and include citations.
For your participation posts, you must construct and post at least two “substantive” replies to your course-mates’ or instructor discussion conversations. Substantive replies must incorporate a minimum of one source/citation to support post observations and analysis (to include all footnote or end note source information); and must link the discussion(s) to the assigned lesson or course objectives.
If you meet or exceed these discussion participation expectations, you will earn full credit for weekly discussion participation. Your assessment scores will be documented each week in the course Gradebook; along with specific feedback describing shortfalls and reasons for any deductions.
By meeting all requirements for the discussions, please address the following questions: 
Why did Bayezit fail so badly against Tamerlane, and how were the Ottomans able to rebound? Was the succession process (or lack thereof) a help or a hindrance to the success of the Ottomans? How did Mehmet I and Murat II “save” the empire? 
AND
Why did Mehmed II focus his energies on finishing the siege of Constantinople, and why was the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453 so significant?
You may combine your response into one post, but are not required to do so.
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Book Title Osman’s Dream
Author / Editor Finkel, Caroline
ISBN 9780465023974

. Simple word choice/language
. No plagiarism 
. Make it look like it is in my own words
. Include Works Cited page
HISTORY 214-submit on or before May 19, 2024.
FINAL  EXAM assignment –125 points.  PLEASE DO YOUR ANSWERS IN YOUR OWN WORDS!  Also, please use Microsoft word docs when submitting answers, either on BB or email to me.
Please do ONE of the following questions.  Your answer will be graded by the content, accuracy and clarity. (60 points)
What events lead to World war I and why were The main peace treaties of  Versailles a failure or was this peace a complete failure?  How did the world change in terms of new nations, territories, colonies?
How did Hitler attain power?  Include in your answer the election that brought him to power, von Papen’s compromise, the Reichstag fire and subsequent events after that.  What were Hitler’s racial policies and how were they implemented as part of his future plans?
Short Answers.  Please do two  of the following questions.  Your answers will be graded by the same criteria as the essay. (65  points):
What were President Wilson’s 14 points?  Why was the League of Nations weak?
In the aftermath of World War II, the same mistakes were not made with peace plans as occurred in WWI.  How was the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the United Nations and NATO a success, or were they all equally successful?
How did the incompetence of Czar Nicholas II and his family problems, perhaps exacerbated by Rasputin, as well as Russian involvement in World war I, lead to the Czar’s abdication?
When did the tide of World War 2 turn in the Atlantic and the Pacific for an Allied victory?
Discuss three types of colonialism, for example, settler, exploitation, plantation, or internal colonialisms.  What drove the United Nations to support self-determinism of countries and territories after World War II? 

PLEASE READ INSTRUCTIONS!!!!!!!
This assignment focuses on the development of “nations and empires.” More specifically, you are comparing the processes of nation-building in Japan, Russia and Germany, which brought about the transformations of these countries into more powerful nation-states. Your analysis will be based on
An attentive reading of chapter 17 of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart.
Critical engagement with and reflection on the following primary sources
Okuma, Fifty Years of New Japan, 1907-8 https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1908okuma.asp
Prince Ukhtomskii, Russian Imperial Destiny, 1891 https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1891ukhtomskii.asp
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Address to the German Nation, 1806 & 1807
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1806fichte.asp
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1807fichte1.asp
Ernst Moritz Arndt, The German Fatherland https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/arndt-vaterland.asp
As you write your essay, consider the following questions:
What was unique about the nation-building process in each of the countries in the second half of the nineteenth century? How did the elites who led these processes respond to groups who resisted their efforts?
What were each country’s motivations for expansion?
How did each country’s path toward industrialization compare? To what extent were efforts to modernize education systems part of the industrialization process?
This means that writing comparatively means juxtaposing rather than writing separately about three things. In other words, you don’t write about a, then b, and then c. Do not replicate the narrative in the textbook – you’re providing an analysis.
Submission Guidelines
Your submission should be in essay format. This means that even though I provided you with questions (above) those are meant to facilitate your engagement with the texts and crafting of your own ideas. Therefore, please do not respond in the format of answers. Your essay should have a clearly stated main argument and provide ample evidence to support it.
The length of your essay is ~1200-1300 words, double-spaced for legibility. Make sure you do not exceed the word limit but also that your submission is not too short and lacking in depth and details.
You must cite your sources using footnotes. Please refer to the slides I posted early in the semester if you’re unsure of the correct format. A citation-free essay is unacceptable.
This is your solo work. You are not allowed to collaborate with anyone or use any external website or tool. That would be considered plagiarism.
Plagiarism = zero on the assignment + reporting.
Do not quote from the texts. Remember that quotes never replace analysis and in fact weaken your writing overall.
Avoid vague and ahistorical claims (“throughout history”). Your writing should be specific, detailed and historically situated. Engage closely and directly with the readings.
Upload your assignment to Blackboard in DocX or PDF. Other formats will not be accepted. It is your responsibility your assignment was uploaded properly and on time. I will grade the contents of the file that you upload. Make sure you actually hit “submit” and not “save” (the latter will not submit your assignment and will result in an automatic zero).
There are no “automatic extensions.” A late submission will incur a 5% per day penalty.
Edit and proofread your work. Remember that you are being graded on writing style and clarity.

Part One: Choose one of the following literary mediums listed below and create a piece that engages the major arguments of Carl Hart’s book High Price. You can focus on any of the characters or stories. Your piece must directly relate to Carl Hart’s book. How exactly it relates is up to you. Be as creative and as innovative as you like.
Zine (3-4 pages) 
Podcast (5-10 minutes) 
Comic book (3-4 pages) 
Painting (1 or 2) 
Position Paper (2-3 pages) 
Play (2-3 pages) 
Poem (one long poem or a series poem, 4 at most) 
Photographs (series 4) 
Curated playlist (video or songs, 4 total) 
Part Two: Create an interpretative guide (2 pages, double-spaced) 
Provide a guide and/or rationale for your project that addresses any aspects related to Carl Hart’s High Price. 
In this guide, you are to outline how the reader/reviewer should understand and engage your work. You are to detail how your creative piece is in conversation with the themes and ideas of High Price.
You must integrate at least three quotes from Carl Hart’s book. 
Things to consider:  
Explain how Carl Hart’s book inspired the creative approach you have taken—this will entail offering historical context from High Price and/or significant events or persons and their relationship to Carl Hart.
Situate your piece as responding to or in conversation with High Price.
Explain how the creative approach you have undertaken helps the reader understand the themes and ideas in Carl Hart’s book. 

Prompt
Examine Enguerrand de Monstrelet’s descriiption of the battle of Agincourt (scroll down to Chapters CXLV and CXLVI). Analyze and discuss in detail how the narrator explains the English army’s success over the French at Agincourt. To what degree does this account support or undermine the popular impression of Agincourt as a key turning point in the history of military technology or the European way of war?

Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Battle of Agincourt, 1415

What to Submit
This source analysis paper should follow these guidelines: two to three pages, double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Citations should be in Chicago style.

Connecting the “Conquistadores” to the readings ( text and Aztec Lament), write a two-three page double-spaced, 12pt font reflection paper. How does the story reinforce the readings from last week (chapters 1 and 2). What is the conflict? -The Fates of Human Societies after conquest Is? Remember to cite your references from the book and include the reading and viewing material in your reference page.