the government and domestic policy
9059Instructions Identify two secondary sources from your selected topic. The secondary resources will review two historical events that impacted your research topic. Complete the Historical Context Chart to explore how these events inform the historical context of your topic and support your thesis statement. To complete this...
the government and domestic policy
9058In this discussion, you'll present your research plan and relevant resources you found. In your initial post, do the following: • Organize your revised research questions, current thesis statement, and an outline or checklist of your plan for conducting further research on your topic into a...
[Salamon, L. M. (2019). The presidency and domestic policy formulation. The Illusion of Presidential Government, 177-201. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429311727-10]
9035Instructions After selecting a historical topic to research further, the next step in the research process is to create a research plan that compiles primary and secondary sources. First, applying what you just learned about narrowing research questions, revise your research questions from your Topic Exploration Worksheet. Explain...
3-1 Discussion: Historical Lenses
8968In this discussion, you will consider how historical lenses can affect the study of a historical topic. Select one of the secondary source articles from your research. After reading that article, write a discussion post about which of the following lenses you believe the article...
history
8967Prompt: Review the HIS 100 library guide linked within each module and read another secondary source of your choice related to the topic you are interested in. Then, download and complete the Secondary Source Analysis Worksheet for the secondary source that you selected. Refer to the...
Project 1: Topic Exploration Worksheet Submission
8936“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” —Pearl Buck Your first project in this course is to complete a topic exploration worksheet. The work you do on this topic exploration worksheet will directly support your work on two other projects—a research plan and introduction...
Short Response: Primary Source Hunt
8935Activity: Open these three links to digital repositories containing resources related to the dropping of the atomic bomb. Browse through each repository (TrumanLibrary Collections, Voices of the Manhattan Project, and National Security Archive), and think about how useful these repositories would be to you if...
Using the history of Westward Expansion, which you’ve read in Eric Foner’s Chapter 16, write a one-page response to and interpretation of “Gold Rush Brides,” its music and lyrics.
6286Use Foner’s narrative to analyze the song’s various meanings and references to the experience of American history. In other words, please consider the themes of the song and how you might interpret its meaning using Eric Foner’s chapter on Westward Expansion and the Gilded Age. Be...
Assignment 1.2: A Changing World Final Paper
6243Assignment 1.2: A Changing World Final Paper worth 140 points The discovery of America and that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two (2) greatest events recorded in the history of [human] kind” – Adam Smith, in...