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Here are some brief instructions for our Learning Objective essay. For history classes, we provide the opportunity to look into a specific topic with more depth and scope. You are allowed to pick your own topic, research it, and place the event or trend in historical context. In other words, […]

Historian Pierre Goubert was an important figure of the Annales school of historical studies. In what ways does Goubert’s work on the seventeenth-century peasantry reflect the Annales tradition? What does Goubert’s work reveal about rural life during the seventeenth century? What challenges did peasants face? What was important to them? […]

In this activity you will be pretending to be a consultant for an interest group. You will be charged with helping that interest group better achieve its goals. Have fun and be creative in this activity! Your paper should be at least 500 words long. 1. First, select an interest […]

Who can do it in that time limit?! Much of this course half was spent on the characteristics of the three major world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. You discovered through the reading and writing of the essay in Lesson 5 that among the vast differences in the religions, there […]

Book review on Margot Canaday’s The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Please write an eloquent, concise, and clearly argued paper in which you engage in an analysis of the author’s argument and central themes. DO NOT simply write a paper telling what the book is about. should […]

The number of completely different and unique languages, many hundreds, are found along the western coast. Do a bit of research online (be careful online, it’s a minefield of myths). Then tackle these two topics. Why do you think diverse and distinctly separate cultural groups grew, to be densely over […]