History Of the US Human Experience Question

History Of the US Human Experience Question

One of our learning objectives for History 131 this Winter is to recognize and describe change over time, and to acknowledge how dramatically the United States has changed over the course of its relatively short history. Historical Thinking Essay #1 is intended to help you to become familiar with the dramatic changes that occurred in the nation in the fifty years since the end of the Civil War (1865 to 1915).

INSTRUCTIONS:

Ø Read about the history.

Read Chapters 15-19 in The American Yawp and familiarize yourselves with the corresponding Primary Sources in The American Yawp Reader.

Ø Examine and interpret the EVIDENCE.

Historical thinking requires corroboration of the evidence; we must consult varied sources from differing points of view in order to piece together multiple experiences of past events and interpret the historical significance. To assist you in this aspect of historical thinking, you are required to rely on the primary sources in The American Yawp Reader. You are NOT required to refer to all of the sources in Chapters 15 to 19! However, you are asked to quote from and cite at least three (3) different primary sources as evidence.

GOAL:

Ø Analyze the History. Write an essay in response to the following questions:

“Never in the history of the world was society in so terrific flux as it is right now,” Jack London wrote in The Iron Heel, a 1908 dystopian novel. Describe the ways in which the United States changed in the fifty years since the end of the Civil War. You are invited to consider political and economic change, as well as social and cultural developments. To what extent were all Americans affected by these changes? To what extent where only certain groups of Americans affected, but not others?

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IMPORTANT REMINDERS

1) Your essay should be between 3 and 5 pages (~750-1250 words), double-spaced, with Times New Roman 12-point font [which is the font you are now reading]. Your citations can be Chicago, MLA or APA or whatever citation style you are most comfortable using.

2) Be sure to provide concrete historical examples from The American Yawp.

3) Be sure to quote and analyze at least three (3) primary sources from American

Yawp Reader

4) Please respond to the questions in the prompt by removing yourself from the essay—avoid all references to the first person (I, me)—and allow the history (and especially the primary source documents) to speak as evidence.

5) History is about the human experience and thus learning about history can be painful for all of us. You may experience an emotional reaction or have a moral judgement about the history you are studying. Even so, please do your best to leave sentiments out of your analysis. Rather than what you may feel or believe about what happened, make an honest attempt to fully understand the history from as many different perspectives as you can—even those with which you may

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