HIST 201: U.S. History, 1865-Present (Online Course)
Spring 2018 (100 points)
Essay Instructions – Due in a MS Word or Open Office Document before 10:00pm on
May 4 (I will create a drop box under week 7’s course content where you can submit
your assignment).
History may appear as a series of self-evident events to the contemporary student.
As one political scientist put it, the study of history is just reviewing “one damn thing
after another.” However, closer analysis reveals that overlapping complications,
unforeseen factors, and sometimes-outright spontaneity contributed to the past’s makeup.
This assignment offers you three options that hint at the complexities of historical study.
You must choose one of the two options below. Email me your selected option by
04/06.
Option #1: Political Cartoons of Chinese – Americans – Several ethnic groups endured
political, social and cultural persecution (such as African-Americans in the Jim Crow
South, and Mexican-Americans in the Southwest). Chinese Americans were considered
second-class citizens in the west. There are several political cartoons that depict
stereotypical Chinese characters from the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Review the four
Chinese-American illustrations listed under Week 2’s “Essay Files” through Blackboard.
Option #2: Political Cartoons of the Second Red Scare – By September of 1945, the
U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union seemingly stood united as the champions of the free
world. Yet, only a few years later, as Winston Churchill prophesized, the world devolved
into an ideological contest dominated by the U.S. and Soviet Union’ camps. This struggle
was also present on the home front with the witch hunt-like craze of McCarthyism
searching for supposed seditious Communists. There are several political cartoons that
criticized this frenzied moment in U.S. political history. Review the four political
cartoons listed under Week 2’s “Essay Files” through Blackboard.
Option #3: U.S. National Park Service World War II Memorial – The Second World War
witnessed an unprecedented level of death and destruction across the globe. The U.S.
World War II memorial reflects a part of that toll. Yet this reminder of an earth-shattering
event simultaneously illustrates and glorifies labor, gender, political, and social events
from the prewar period to 1945. For this option, you must visit the National World War II
Memorial and choose a specific theme that the memorial highlights (e.g. the memorial’s
images on labor illustrating the home front is one theme). After you visit the memorial,
you must email me your selected theme by April 14.
After selecting your option, complete the following instructions:
Step 1: Complete and submit the Library Trail Assignment before 10:00 pm on April 16.
Step 2: Write the first part of the assignment: Summarize your option’s historical
contents within 250 words (1 page). Your summary should include any major acts of
legislation, important historical players and events related to your period. Use the
OpenStax text, political cartoons/memorial, and any relevant course websites to support
your summary.
Step 3: Write the second part of the assignment: Upon completing your summary, answer
the following questions in 600-750 words (2.5-3 pages). What events/regions are the
political cartoons/memorial images depicting? Do the illustrations accurately depict these
events/regions, are they exaggerated, or are they a mix of truth and deception? How do
the cartoonist or memorial’s intentions interfere or help illustrate this period of history?
I encourage you to organize your paper by using subsection titles for steps 2 & 3 of this
assignment. Submit both parts by May 4.
Step 4 (for options #1 & 2 only!): As any observer of contemporary U.S. events will
note, racial relations and federal government surveillance remain contentious issues.
Given your analysis of the political cartoons and your research, do you think the U.S. has
progressed in your option’s field? If you chose option #1, for instance, do you think racial
relations have improved in the U.S. since the late 19th and early 20th centuries, why or
why not? Write your response in 250-300 words. You must use your research and 2
newspaper articles (requirement #5 from the E-library trail assignment) to support your
response.
Research: You must use at least three academic sources for this assignment. These
sources must come from academic journals and/or monographs. A number of academics
have analyzed these topics. Only use sources written by professional academics.
You will acquire more than enough research materials by successfully completing
your E-library trail assignment. However, the following includes some suggestions on
where you ought to look (and not look) for academic sources.
Academic journals are the safest as they usually go through a review process that
weeds out the incompetent, fraudulent and overly biased. You can usually trust a journal
if it is published by a major university press. A simple subject search in the library
catalogue will yield several possibilities. Articles from scholarly journals are usually
excellent. If you see a reference to a journal article, try looking it up – the library holds
many, many serials.
The internet has masses of information. However, be very careful. Many web
sites are outright frauds. Many simply repeat the errors of others. Many are purely
personal, and reflect the author’s prejudices rather than scholarly analysis. Many are too
lightweight to support a serious argument. You should stick to academic and institutional
sites: an .edu site is probably safe, and an .org site is possibly safe. In taking notes on the
internet, be sure to record the precise URL, which you will need for citations.
The MC Library History website has a guide to evaluating research at
http://libguides.montgomerycollege.edu/ld.php?content_id=13890922.
There are resources available for all of these books in MC’s libraries. Do not wait
until the week before this assignment is due to locate and research your sources. Make
sure to take thorough notes on your research.
Writing: If research is the work of history, then writing is the art. Writing in a clear and
organized manner will assist the reader in understanding what you are saying and
following your argument(s). Content is certainly important, but if the reader cannot
understand what you are saying, then it does not matter how much research you put into
this assignment.
Write in full literary English. If you use the same conventions that you use on
email and text messaging, I probably won’t understand it. Likewise, use formal English.
If your language is not serious, your essay will not be taken seriously.
Each paragraph should run 3-5 sentences, and should have one central event or
idea. Longer paragraphs tend to lose the main thread. In addition, make sure that you
write in full sentences: subject, verb, predicate. Do not mash multiple sentences together,
separated by commas.
In addition to following the assignment’s guidelines, note that this paper is not a
copy and paste exercise. In other words, the majority of your essay ought to be
paraphrased (written in your own words that are supported by credible sources). Direct
quotes ought to be limited to supporting key points throughout your paper.
Simply copying and pasting large blocks of text from your sources not only
reduces your voice, but gives off an impression of laziness.
Make sure to provide page numbers on your submitted paper. All of the
Montgomery College Writing Centers are great resources that I encourage you to use.
Citations: For this assignment, you must cite your work. This does not mean slapping on
a “Work’s Cited” page at the end of your assignment. You must tell the reader exactly
where you obtained your information. A paper without any citations will receive an
automatic zero. A paper with only partial citations will lose points. History papers
demand research and giving credit to where credit’s due.
I recommend that you use MLA, but you may use APA or Chicago as long as you
are consistent. For guidelines on MLA citations, review the following website,
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/. If you have any concerns or
questions about when to cite your work, ask me.
Grading: This paper is worth 100 points. Combined with the library trail assignment, it
is worth 29.4% of your course grade. An A paper will meet the following requirements:
• The paper is accompanied with page numbers and does not exceed 1,000 words
(or 1,250-1,300 words for those of you completing options #1-2). Please do not
start the first page by putting your text halfway down the page or put in large
headers/footers on each page. I have seen a number of tricks that increase page
numbers and none of them work.
• The paper is written in a clear and organized matter. The reader is never confused
about the reader’s main points, arguments, and chronology of events.
• All of the assignment’s questions are answered in an accurate, clear and organized
matter.
• The paper is centered on a clear thesis statement. Throughout the entire paper, the
writer reinforces their primary argument by citing their academic sources
regularly.
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In addition to the textbook, the supplemental online sites and lecture notes, you
must locate and include three academic journal articles and/or monographs in
your research (and 2 recent newspaper articles if you are completing options #12).
All citations follow a proper MLA, APA, Chicago or Turabian style throughout
the entire paper. The paper’s conclusion is followed by a bibliography or a Works
Cited Section. There should be at least two in-text citations per page.
I will create a drop box for this assignment, of which you ought to submit your
file by May 4.
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