Discuss Anna’s behavior from the selected perspective, address the early rumors which circulated through the town, and also include your observations on Anna’s exile from Hall and the subsequent court battle between Anna and her family.

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Burgermeister’s Daughter Narrative

After reading Ozment’s The Burgermeister’s Daughter, write an essay assuming the role of either: Lady Schenkin (Erasmus’s mother), Hermann Büschler (Anna’s father), Anna Büschler, or Daniel Treutwein. You may choose to show a correspondence between these people rather than just focusing on one individual. Discuss Anna’s behavior from the selected perspective, address the early rumors which circulated through the town, and also include your observations on Anna’s exile from Hall and the subsequent court battle between Anna and her family. Remember to make the format of your narrative clear (journal entry, letter, etc.) and to consider the audience of the narrator in order to make clear the motivation for the telling of the story.

Construct your essay using standard paragraphs. Essays should be between three and five pages, in standard format to receive credit. Remember to cite information from the book as you construct your narrative. While citation may seem to violate the authenticity of the narrative, for the purposes of historical thinking it helps me to see what from the book informed your narrative.

What themes do you think the discourse includes or invokes, and how are they expressed in these films? Do you think the films reframe and disrupt American mythologies or reaffirm them? Or both?

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Western Cinema Midterm

Using specific examples from the films and the readings, please describe and explain the ways the films variously present the west as a discourse or series of discourses in the framework of American history. What themes do you think the discourse includes or invokes, and how are they expressed in these films? Do you think the films reframe and disrupt American mythologies or reaffirm them? Or both? How did some of these films, as Neil Campbell describes Sergio Leone’s film, work “with and against genre memory?” Does historical truthfulness matter in these films or to our understanding of them? Does a sense of authenticity strengthen or weaken cultural and historical understanding? Why or why not?

Films: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence(1962), Stage Coach(1939), The Alamo(1960 and 2004 versions), Chato’s Land(1972), Melody Ranch(1940), True Grit(1969 and 2010 versions), Once Upon a Time in the West(1968), and Ballad of Buster Scruggs(2018)

Readings: The Significance of the Frontier in American History (Turner Thesis), The Rhizomatic West, and Forget the Alamo

How many of us learned about George Washington chopping down a cherry tree, and his being unable to lie about it?

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W1: Myths of American History

Frankly, many popular stories and grade-school lessons about U.S. History are myths that Americans have perpetuated throughout the centuries. In some cases, they may be half-truths, while in others, they just never happened. How many of us learned about George Washington chopping down a cherry tree, and his being unable to lie about it? It is possible that some of these stories have remained fixed in our culture because they produce good citizens, while in others, we relieve our guilt for real or perceived past transgressions. Whatever the case, these myths exist in great measure.

For this discussion, you will need to Google “U.S. history myths” and choose a particular myth. Try to mix it up a little bit — if your peers have examined George Washington’s teeth a number of times, choose something different. Introduce your myth and the reality, then explain why you think this it has been immortalized in the American consciousness. For this last part, there is no wrong or right answer. More than anything, I am looking for your opinion.

Please, no myths past the timeframe of HIST 101 (i.e. past the year 1877). Also, try to avoid conspiracy theories, such as those involving the Freemasons, the Illuminati, or “Jewish space lasers.” History relies on facts.

You are allowed to use any of the citation formats in this course (APA, MLA, Chicago), but for those of you new to the Chicago Style citation format, I wanted to share a couple of references where you can learn more about when and how to cite, using the Chicago Style format. It is different from MLA and APA, so please take the time to review the rules and requirements. The biggest structure is that you use inline numerical citations where you need to give credit to a reference, and then include a corresponding footnote on the same page as the citation.

This first site gives a total breakdown of when and how to use Chicago Style cites:

This second site provides a quick, easy to review chart of the Chicago Style format:

And also:

In the Verrazano source, what is the author describing? What does it reveal about that particular historical moment?

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Voyages of Giovanna da Verrazzano

Fall 2021 – Essay One Assignment
The Primary Source Analysis Essay

Purpose: This essay is designed to help the student evaluate and interpret primary sources to better understand a historical moment.
Materials: One Primary Source (provided by the professor), a secondary source (your textbook or notes from lectures), Primary Source Analysis Worksheet (to help the analysis process)
Assignment: Each student should use the Primary Source Analysis Worksheet and their notes from class to analyze the document provided in class by answering (in the form of an essay) the question posed by the professor for the assignment. This essay should be 750-1000 words. Quote the primary source at least once in the essay. The essay must be submitted on Ga View as a word document (no PDFs). The essay should be composed in 12 pt. Times New Roman font and double spaced. The essay should contain citations (an essay without citations will have a 10 point automatic penalty). These citations should be in the form of Chicago Style Citations. Do NOT use the First Person in the essay (no use if I, me, we, you).

Primary Source: Voyages of Giovanni Da Verrazano (located under Content – Week Three in Ga View)

Question: In the Verrazano source, what is the author describing? What does it reveal about that particular historical moment?

Whom do you blame for your economic status? How has the Depression affected your family members? What do you feel about President Hoover?

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The great depression

2. You and your family are living in Chicago, Illinois in 1932, the Depression has affected your family in a variety of ways. Whom do you blame for your economic status? How has the Depression affected your family members? What do you feel about President Hoover?

Determine three reasons why colonies were formed in the New World by European nations and explain how these colonies differed or mirrored their European parent nations.

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The Colonization of North America

The North American colonies were founded upon many different principles and reasons. Determine three reasons why colonies were formed in the New World by European nations and explain how these colonies differed or mirrored their European parent nations. Cite specific examples for each reason.

What similarities and differences did you find between Ortega y Gasset’s conception of mass society and Lenin’s view of a communist society? How would each address the concept of freedom within mass society?

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Ortega y Gasset’s conception of mass society and Lenin’s view of a communist society.

1. What similarities and differences did you find between Ortega y Gasset’s conception of mass society and Lenin’s view of a communist society? How would each address the concept of freedom within mass society?

What does the book do well? What doesn’t it do well? What message about the past is the writer trying to tell us? What does the book tell us about how people saw the world when it was written?

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Aloha Betrayed Book Review

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 about the reading that piqued your interest, raised questions, etc., and use those as a jumping off point for ANALYZING the text. You should provide, at most, one short paragraph of summary; the rest should be analysis of the book itself and how it can be used both to tell history or as a part of history itself. You can also provide support for your argument with more in depth discussions of certain sections of the text.
You are allowed a bit more leeway than a formal paper because this is more of a personal response or reflection type of writing, but these responses must still demonstrate that you have done the reading and that you have THOUGHT about what you read and understand the readings. These are some example questions that can help you identify what to include in your review:
What does the book do well? What doesn’t it do well?
What message about the past is the writer trying to tell us?
What does the book tell us about how people saw the world when it was written?
Did you see any problems or weaknesses in the text.?
What questions were raised as you read the text?
As part of this you should do some quick research on the book’s author(s), and how their identity might affect the book’s portrayals as well.
YOU SHOULD HAVE A THESIS STATEMENT. You should be making some sort of argument in this thing, either about what the book did well, what it missed, what its most important themes are, etc. Your analysis of the book should support the thesis.
At the end of the day, it is a review. So the most important things are who would benefit from or enjoy reading this book and why, and who would not.

What is the author describing? What does it reveal about that particular historical moment?

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Voyages of Giovanna da Verrazzano

Fall 2021 – Essay One Assignment
The Primary Source Analysis Essay

Purpose: This essay is designed to help the student evaluate and interpret primary sources to better understand a historical moment.
Materials: One Primary Source (provided by the professor), a secondary source (your textbook or notes from lectures), Primary Source Analysis Worksheet (to help the analysis process)
Assignment: Each student should use the Primary Source Analysis Worksheet and their notes from class to analyze the document provided in class by answering (in the form of an essay) the question posed by the professor for the assignment. This essay should be 750-1000 words. Quote the primary source at least once in the essay. The essay must be submitted on Ga View as a word document (no PDFs). The essay should be composed in 12 pt. Times New Roman font and double spaced. The essay should contain citations (an essay without citations will have a 10 point automatic penalty). These citations should be in the form of Chicago Style Citations. Do NOT use the First Person in the essay (no use if I, me, we, you).

Primary Source: Voyages of Giovanni Da Verrazano (located under Content – Week Three in Ga View)

Question: In the Verrazano source, what is the author describing? What does it reveal about that particular historical moment?

What similarities and differences did you find between Ortega y Gasset’s conception of mass society and Lenin’s view of a communist society?

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Ortega y Gasset’s conception of mass society and Lenin’s view of a communist society

1. What similarities and differences did you find between Ortega y Gasset’s conception of mass society and Lenin’s view of a communist society? How would each address the concept of freedom within mass society?