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After the Civil War, the United States had to recover from war, handle western expansion, and grapple with very new economic forms. However, its greatest issues would revolve around the legacies of slavery and increasing diversity in the decades after the Civil War. In the South, former slaves now had […]

Discussion 1: Colonial Childhood 8 8 unread replies. 8 8 replies. Introduction: In his introduction to Huck’s Raft Steven Mintz explains that one of his purposes in writing is to show that childhood is not simply a biological phase of life that everyone moves through (well, everyone who survives to […]

Instructions Read the Funeral Oration of Pericles in the Ancient History Sourcebook at Fordham University. Given the context of this speech, do you believe everything Pericles says about Athens in the Funeral Oration? Why or why not? with work cited

Read the book Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by: Erik Larson. 2. Compose the Introduction 3. Compose only one body paragraph involving only the chapter topic of ROOM 40. 3. Just tell me in one paragraph of two major events that occured in the ROOM 40 topic.

Write an essay using those sources to address one of the following bulleted question-clusters; your thesis statement should reflect a response to the question-cluster you choose:———— OPTION 1: While the different threads of Marxist socialism in nineteenth-century Europe shared some common themes, it was also a divided movement. Based on […]

How did ideas (secular and religious) combine with social conflict and “class” tensions to make a “revolution”? How “revolutionary” was the War for Independence?There are three components to the second prompt. In drafting a response DO NOT simply try to retell the tale of the “Imperial Crisis” (those acts of […]