US HISTORY
Prompt:
Students should analyze three or more Primary Sources. You can choose to answer;
Why is this source significant in modern US history?
What does the source reveal about its time period from which it comes and the historical actors it involves?
Do the primary sources differ from one another, and if so, how?
NB: While this assignment should focus on the primary sources, students must also use at least two secondary sources, in order to provide sufficient historical background and context for the primary sources you will be analyzing.
The first 3 have attached website links. You can choose 3-4 of them. Use secondary sources as background information and also when citing use footnotes if you can. Explain also how the texts connect to each other.
Thank you!
Primary Sources:
– “Chief Joseph on Indian Affairs,” (1877, 1879) American Yawp.
https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/17-conquering-the-west/chief-joseph-on-indian-affairs-1877-1879/
– Helen Hunt Jackson, “Excerpts from A Century of Dishonor,” American Yawp.
https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/17-conquering-the-west/helen-hunt-jackson-on-a-century-of-dishonor-1881/
– Frederick Jackson Turner, “Significance of the Frontier in American History,” (1893) American Yawp.
https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/17-conquering-the-west/frederick-jackson-turner-significance-of-the-frontier-in-american-history-1893/
– “To Bar More Aliens,” Washington Post (Aug. 7, 1911).
– Mary Antin, The Promised Land [Excerpt] (1912).
Secondary Sources:
– Heather Cox Richardson, Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre (New York: Basic Books, 2010) Introduction, Ch. 1
– Rose Currarino, The Labor Question in America, Ch. 2.
– Jennifer Guglielmo, Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880 – 1945(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012) Ch. 4
