Category: History

Select a topic you would like to research. After you have selected a topic, visit the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) at www.avl.lib.al.us Links to an external site.to perform some basic research on the topic. There you can use either the Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints database or the Points of View Reference Center (EBSCO) database to find an article that would support your argument. You are looking for a periodical (magazine, newspaper, or professional journal) article that discusses your chosen topic and supports your argument.
Once you have located your article, you should read the article and then write a basic two-paragraph submission for the library assignment The first paragraph should be a summary of the article. The second paragraph should be one that includes your reaction to the article and a description of how the article will help support your thesis for your argumentative essay. Do not forget to include an MLA-formatted Works Cited page for the article.

Reading (attached in file):
1. Primo Levi, “The Grey Zone” (The Drowned and the Saved)
2. Jorge Semprún, Literature or Life (selection)
Note: this is for a weekly assignment that discusses the weekly reading, so it should be more informal and include personal opinions and thoughts about the reading guided by the following questions.
Instructions:
Complete at least three of the following components:
1. One discussion question that arises from your reading of Primo Levi or Jorge Semprún
2. One quote that you found especially interesting from the readings as well as a brief explanation of it.
3. Answer one of the following questions and find examples from the text to support your points:
i) Explain the notion of the “grey zone” in Primo Levi and illustrate your points with concrete examples drawn from the text.
OR
ii) Discuss one of the following themes in Jorge Semprún’s “The Gaze”: the issue of representing the Holocaust, the possibility of resistance inside the death camps, life after the camp, or the title of the book (“Literature or Life”).
4. One brief personal take on these readings: Your general opinion (your personal thoughts and reactions) about them, how they relate to you, strong points and weaknesses, etc.

Write a five-paragraph essay (introduction, three main paragraphs, conclusion), 750-1000 words. Your main paragraphs should focus on your family (whatever that means to you), your community (whatever that means to you), and your own individual experiences. Consider the following as you construct your essay: Family can be just your parents and sisters and brothers or it can include extended family like grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins, etc., but it can also include other people who have had such a significant role in your life that they have become your family (or you have become their family). Your community can be the neighborhood where you grew up, the places you have lived, gone to school, worked, etc., and your friends and other people you have various relationships with in those places. But community can also be any group of people that you share something in common with who are important to you or that had an impact on your life. Types of communities could include racial/ethnic/language, gender/sexual orientation, religious, political, medical/disability, sports/recreation, art/music, other lifestyle/interests/hobbies, etc. Your individual experiences can include anything from ordinary, everyday experiences that shaped your life over a long period of time to major life-changing one-time events that reshaped your life all at once. These can be good experiences, bad experiences, and all kinds of experiences in between. Usually, your family, your communities, and your individual experiences are all intertwined and overlapping, but sometimes they can impact your life separately. Questions to Consider How important is family in your life? How much do you know about your parents, grandparents, or other ancestors experiences before you were born? What roles did your immediate family and extended family play in your childhood, in your adolescence, and as an adult? How important are the communities you belong to in your life? Which communities have shaped your identity in the most important ways? Which communities or parts of your identity have changed over time? Which individual experiences have had the biggest impact on you? Have your day-to-day experiences been more important? Or have larger, more significant specific experiences been more important? Are your most important experiences connected to your family or communities? Or have they been separate experiences? Rubric Word Count & Depth (10 points) Grammar & Mechanics (10 points) Flow & Structure (20 points) Content & Ideas (60 points)- Exemplary: Ends the introduction with a thesis statement/main idea that specifies how family/communities/experiences have impacted you. Fully explores and elaborates the roles of family, communities, and/or individual experiences in shaping your life. Meets the five-paragraph, 750-1000 word requirement. Accomplished: Introduction includes a thesis statement/main idea. Explores the roles of family, communities, and/or individual experiences in shaping your life. Meets the five-paragraph, 750-1000 word requirement. Developing: Attempts a thesis statement/main idea. Partially explores the roles of family, communities, and/or individual experiences. Approaches or exceeds the five-paragraph, 750-1000 word requirement. Beginning: No obvious thesis statement/main idea. Does not adequately address roles of family, communities, or individual experiences. Does not meet the five-paragraph, 750-1000 word requirement.

HISTORY Policing & Popular Justice in Ireland 1500 word essay, due Monday 26 February Answer ONE of the five questions below. Question 1. Discuss the Royal Irish Constabulary, focusing on its organisation and the challenges it faced. Question 2: Compare and contrast two different rural or other secret society organisations active in the 18th and/or 19th centuries. Identify and discuss similarities and any differences in the two organisations. Question 3: Discuss faction fighting in Ireland during the 19th century. Explain some of its common features, manifestations, causes, and the demographics of participants. Question 4: Identify the main features of Ireland’s 19th century Temperance Movement. Make sure to include Father Mathew’s campaign. Question 5: When considering Irish holidays in the 18th and 19th centuries, please identify some common features, particularly in relationship to ‘mumming’ traditions. The essay is 1500 words. The word count includes footnotes but excludes the bibliography. Please vary your reading. Use multiple academic secondary sources (book or journal articles). Please check Canvas for reading materials. Supplementary reading is encouraged. Use footnotes and provide a bibliography. There is no preferred referencing style (ie Chicago Manual Style). But whichever style you choose, use it consistently throughout the essay. All essays should have a bibliography.

Explain how the articles by Annabel LaBrecque and Concepts for Understanding Chicanx and Latinx Indigeneities help us understand the importance of understanding history outside a Euro/Ameri-centric point of view. How does the study of the Olmec civilization in Mesoamerica shed light on the indigenous roots of modern-day Mexicans, and in what ways can an understanding of the Olmec legacy contribute to discussions about contemporary indigenous identities in Mexico? In your opinion, why should we study history?

Note: A free response paper is a short essay which conveys your reaction to article you have read. Please read: The Colonial American Economy by Rosenbloom posted under Module 3. (ATTACHED DOCUMENT) Instructions / Outline Summarize the article you read in 1-2 paragraphs. Responses include answering the following: i. What do you think about the ideas in the article? Do you agree or disagree? Why? ii. What ideas and/or facts you find interesting? iii. How do the ideas in the article relate to other things you’ve read/watch in Module 3 iv. What do you notice about the way the article is written? Format: Times New Roman, Font 12, Double Spaced, minimum 750 to 1000 words

In the article by Gonzales, Kertesz, and Tayac, (2007). Eugenics of Indian Removal… you read about the administrative erasure of the Native American tribes in Virginia. What was the major reason given for the administrative changes to American Indians’ state documents and what was one of the results? Remember that North Carolina had a similar policy regarding the identification of Native American people. Please use page numbers from the article to support your replies and try to answer in 150-words. Your response to a classmate’s post counts toward your participation in this class.
The required reading for this module is Eugenics as Indian removal; Helen Maynor Scheirbeck: Devotion to the People; and the optional reading is The Lumbee Indians of North Carolina by Clarence Lowery (1946).
https://archive.org/details/LumbeeIndiansofNorthCarolina/page/n3/mode/2up

Find a contemporary film (from last 20 years) that you feel was influenced by Expressionism. Include 3 characteristics of Expressionism you believe were used in the film. Post film stills to demonstrate your points. Describe each of the 3 characteristics along with the images you post.
Please include the film stills!

Question 1: Define historiography in your own words.
Question 2: Assess Bagnall, Roman Egypt, chapters 1-3, as a secondary source. Address the following topics:
1. Provide the full bibliographic citation for the work. Follow Chicago/Turabian style.
2. Is the work intended for an academic or a general audience? What are the implications of the audience for the author’s style and scope?
3. What is the main argument of the secondary source? For Bagnall, you may want to address each chapter individually.
4. What primary and secondary sources does the author use?
As you read chapters 1-3, look up the sources Bagnall cites after each section in the book’s bibliography. For this assignment, note the range and types of sources he cites.
You do not need to catalogue each source in your response but please do discuss the kinds of evidence that Bagnall relies upon. These sources may also be useful for you in your own research.
5. Does the author reveal any particular point of view or biases? Please identify them and consider what these may suggest about the weaknesses or strengths of the argument.
A book’s preface often will lay out the author’s personal motives for writing the book.
6. Consider the date and country of publication. Set the authors) very briefly into their own historical context.
How might a book in this moment of time differ from previous books? Keep your response here brief. We will address this more fully in the next class on the post-antique reception of Cleopatra.
7. Are there questions or topics that the author does not address? What can you think of that you wish had been included? Every author has to focus on specific issues in their research but these choices mean leaving out some important things. Are there omissions in Bagnall’s book that you consider important? What are they?

Essay (3-4 pages; double spaced; font: New Times Roman):
Address the following essay prompt:
Analyze and compare the perspectives on the intersection between the past, personal/public memories, and historical narratives presented in Arnon Goldfinger’s The Flat (2011) and Joseph Cedar’s Footnote (2011). Address the degree to which—and the manner in which—the past can (or cannot) be captured and represented in personal memory, public memory, and works of scholarship. Illustrate your analysis with relevant evidence from the documentary and the film.
I am sending a note about the footnotes for the essay.

Please use the following format when citing (with the Chicago Manual of Style) a movie or documentary for the first time in the essay:

Title of Movie or Documentary, directed by Director’s First Name Last Name (Release year; City: Studio/Distributor, release year), medium, timestamp as Hour:Minute:Second-Hour:Minute:Second.

Here is a footnote example for the movie Footnote:

Footnote, directed by Joseph Cedar (2011; New York, NY: Sony Pictures Classics, 2011), Academic Video Online, 0:45:34-1:12:56.

And here is a footnote example for the documentary The Flat:

The Flat, directed by Arnon Goldfinger (2013; New York, N.Y.: IFC Films: MPI Home Video, 2013), Swank Motion Pictures, Inc., 0:45:34-1:12:56.

After the first reference for the movie and the documentary, in all subsequent footnotes please use an abbreviated version as follows (Title of Movie or Documentary, timestamp as Hour:Minute:Second-Hour:Minute:Second):

Footnote, 0:45:34-1:12:56.
The Flat, 0:45:34-1:12:56.