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Note: Focus your paper on answering only one of the prompts. Do not answer all of the prompts. Reading: Saunt, West of the Revolution, pp. 11-90. Paper Prompts: 1) What made the California coast appear essential to New Spain’s survival in the Pacific basin during the second half of the […]

How did new technologies affect the life of Londoners between 1500 and 1800? How did the traumatic political events of 1640-1710 – the Civil wars, the Restoration, the Glorious Revolution – reshape London’s cultural and commercial life? [Please don’t tell me what happened; describe the impact of those events.]

In this paper, please discuss the Chinese feminist articulations in the contexts of the May Fourth anti-tradition New Culture around 1920. You should have an introduction to summarize your main thesis, then provide a brief historical narrative about what happened to women in Chinese history, and analyze how the women/gender […]

Whether one looks at resource extraction (including fur trading, fisheries, and hunting), land use (like farming or logging), or biological change (for example, disease), Canadian history after 1608 is punctuated by important environmental events. What are the most dramatic environmental watersheds in the history of Canada to 1867? Assess their […]

The questions you need to ask as you progress through the paper are: What does Horwitz discover in his travels about the memory of the war in the South? How do these memories affect us today? What does Horwitz see as the underlying problem in the remembrance of the war […]

Focusing on one specific area (whether politics, race relations, economics, family, etc), discuss what role Christianity seemed to play in the nation’s development. Note: If you come to the conclusion that Christianity seemed to not play a role in the nation’s development, that is a legitimate position to take, too! […]