Category Archives: History

How does Tillie see those already living in California, including Native Californians?

Read Jane Apostol’s An “Army Bride Goes West” about Matilda McKee, the bride of a military officer stationed in California in the 1860s. Answer the following questions in a typed, double-spaced document. Each response should be numbered to reflect the question answered and about a paragraph in length. How does the new bride prepare for […]

How does this film and the Amistad provide connections between slavery, Africa, and African culture?

films analysis Ghosts of Amistad by Tony Buba is based on Marcus Rediker’s The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom.It chronicles a journey to Sierra Leone in 2013 to visit the home villages of the rebels who captured the slave schooner Amistad, to interview elders about local memory of the incident, and […]

What do the types of punishments given in each law code tell of how each civilisation viewed that status of humans and the value of human life?

Ancient Law Codes Chicago style You must write a paper about all three of these law codes, in which you subject the readings to critical thought and analysis, including your conclusions from that analysis. You must compare, contrast, and critically analyse each of the three readings. Your analysis should include the following points: a. What […]

How do the status of and attitudes toward women during Gilman’s time compare to the lifestyle of women in Herland?

After reading the first three chapters of Herland, write three to four pages in which you answer one or more of the following questions about gender and society that Gilman embedded within the Herland narrative: How do the status of and attitudes toward women during Gilman’s time compare to the lifestyle of women in Herland? […]

Describing the general developments of the New Kingdom a period that broke with tradition assess the political and personal motivations for Akhenaten’s controversial new religion.

1) Ancient Egypt was one of the world’s most conservative societies, a society in which the past was worshipped. Describing the general developments of the New Kingdom a period that broke with tradition assess the political and personal motivations for Akhenaten’s controversial new religion. How, specifically, was the new religion different from the old or […]

Discuss the lasting impact of Supreme Court appointments and why this power is important to the legacy of individual presidents.

Discuss the lasting impact of Supreme Court appointments and why this power is important to the legacy of individual presidents. Your support should come from class materials, but you may choose to include comparisons to our modern government as well.  

Did the effect stem directly from the event- Which cause was most significant?

Historians often debate the causes and effects of events, because history is complex and filled with multiple variables. Some facts are facts: black and white. But most of history is gray: up for interpretation. When analyzing causation, we must remember that we are making a judgement and defending our viewpoint. And remember every viewpoint has […]

What does the book tell us about how people saw the world when it was written?

Aloha Betrayed Book Review  Read and Review this book: Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism American Encounters/Global Interactions By Noenoe K. Silva Book Review Assignment Sheet This is a review not a report. Do not simply provide a summary, but provide your own analysis of the book. Focus on one or two things […]

How did race shape people’s experiences and opportunities in Los Angeles?

It’s an outline for this book review that’s going to be due a week later, but here is the prompt anyway. You can pick one of these questions to answer in the book review and to use for the outline.Based on Hernandez, Kelly Lytle. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging […]