Identify and examine key social, political, cultural and economic movements in American history. To what extent did each of these movements promote reform, rebellion, or both reform and rebellion? Be clear in the ways you define reform and rebellion, pointing out how your definitions might differ from that of other Americans.
How and why have certain Americans tended to view themselves and their nation as “exceptional”? How has this notion shaped American culture, politics and economics?
Write an essay topic about the history of workers’ rights and their impact on us today. Include relevant resources.
What do you consider the most important advancement of writing in the ancient world and why? Do you believe that this advancement impacted the Israelites, their history, and God’s Word? What conditions and innovations had the largest impact on people’s knowledge of the Bible during the time period of the Middle Ages through the Renaissance …
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Describe and analyze the processes by which a distinctively American identity was created and changed over time. What historical forces and events helped to forge this identity? In what specific ways has this identity been contested? Has this identity been broad and inclusive, or has it tended to create un-American or non-American “Others?”
In discussing nationalism, historians are divided over whether or not people had any sort of national identity prior to the nineteenth century—many say that it had its roots in much earlier periods. Do you agree? What other kinds of identity competed with national identity in two periods (defined above) of European history?
Identify and examine key social, political, cultural and economic movements in American history. To what extent did each of these movements promote reform, rebellion, or both reform and rebellion? Be clear in the ways you define reform and rebellion, pointing out how your definitions might differ from that of other Americans.
Describe and analyze the processes by which a distinctively American identity was created and changed over time. What historical forces and events helped to forge this identity? In what specific ways has this identity been contested? Has this identity been broad and inclusive, or has it tended to create un-American or non-American “Others?”
How have historians tended to define “politics” over the course of American history? When and why have these definitions changed and varied? What impact do these definitions have on how historians have approached and written about the nation’s past?
Write an argumentative essay on “What was the opposite of slavery in traditional Arabian society?”
