Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark

Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark Questions for Response Paper (pick one) In a book full of divides and boundaries, which are the most important? How does the novel, both directly and indirectly, confront or at least present some of the most controversial issues in...

Secondary sources

Using A Short Guide to Writing About History (pgs. 29-32) explain:What a secondary source is.How historians use secondary sources to make claims (by claims, I mean arguments about what they think happened in the past and why it happened) and how secondary sources...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Read the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Then write an essay explaining how the book portrays the system of slavery and its characteristics during the antebellum period. Remember to give abundant, specific examples to support your points; these should...

History Questions

Question 1In the nineteenth century, America was dominated by industrialists and men of resources like Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and John D. Rockefeller. How did these figures shape the evolution of the American corporation and the...

Andrew Jackson Economic Policies

Question 1″No one … had more influence on shaping the Democratic Party and its economic policy before Franklin Roosevelt than Andrew Jackson.” What motives inspired Jackson’s policies with respect to land and banking, and how did his acts directly...