Use
evidence from course materials, and use endnote citations, to support your
analysis and conclusion. Endnotes will not count in total page count.
Essays
will be evaluated on the following criteria: 1)that you have analyzed all
relevant course materials for your
conclusion—cite as much material as you can when you make arguments and
conclusion. 2)You should avoid extensive quotations from the sources. Use brief
quotes or refer to the quotes in the endnotes 3) that you have demonstrated the
ability to use historical evidence to make an historical argument 4) that you
can trace developments over time and understand causation of these
developments.
Note: I will
mark-down the essay if you use non-course material for this essay if that means
you ignore or overlook material from this course. That means no textbooks,
internet sources, books you have read for another class. The idea is to use the
course material, not something you read on-line or for another class, to
address the questions. However, if you do use all relevant material from this
class, you are welcome to bring in additional material to support your
conclusions. However, you may not use non-course internet sources at all
without prior approval.
Note 2: If you are not aware of the university’s rules for plagiarism, please consult them. I fail students for plagiarism.
1)President Bush has repeatedly noted that he relies on his advisors for his information about foreign policy. You have just been appointed as his historical advisor. Use history and evidence to give him a briefing about why the U.S. is facing a war on terror. You’ve been asked to detect key historical moments in the background and causation.
2) Write an essay discussing the role that covert or secret foreign policy played in the years since the Vietnam War. Discuss at least 3 events and, detailing the causes and effects of those events.
3) As Eric Foner has noted (Story of American freedom), conservatism is fraught with inherent ideological contradictions. History can help us explain these contradictions and show why conservatism triumphed despite, or because of, these contradictions. Write an essay that defines the conservative agenda and delineates the political, economic and social and cultural causation of conservatism from the 1960s up to 1990s. While your essay should address the issue of contradictions, it should not be limited to this. Rather, show you have understood and mastered the broad reasons for the recent era of conservatism.
4) Write an essay that discusses the causes and effects of the development of what has been called “the new global economy.” Be sure to use Mollie’s job, but be careful to use the other relevant course materials.