Scholary Research Assignment Due Tomorrow

In the first attachment is in the instructions on the Scholarly Research Requirements. 

Please follow the instructions step by step. The second attachment is the News Report that was completed for Step 1. You will need to make sure you refer back to this and that article for this assignment.

In the third attachment, is a Scholarly Research Requirement sample assignment to use for reference. That is how it should look.

This is due tomorrow. 

Professor MacQueen

 

For this project, you will choose a historical event to explore from the Library Research Guide. These events fit into the topic areas of:

  • Inequality and human rights
  • Political revolutions
  • Climate change
  • Globalization

Directions

Read these directions and the rubric criteria and reach out to your instructor if you have any questions before you begin working on this project. Many of the steps below will require you to reference and utilize the work you have done in previous modules of this course. You may use the provided template to complete this project or choose not to use the template and submit a Word document instead.

Part 1: Creating a Research Question: The quality of research often depends on the quality of the question driving it. It is important to understand how personal opinions, perspectives, and historical sources all play a part in developing and examining a research question. Complete the following steps to discuss how you developed a strong research question about your chosen historical event.

  1. Describe how your assumptions, beliefs, and values influenced your choice of topic.
    1. How might your own perspectives and opinions impact the topic you chose and how you may approach studying it?
  2. Discuss the significance of your historical research question in relation to your current event.
    1. State your historical research question and explain the connection between your current event and your question.
  3. Explain how you used sources to finalize your research question.
    1. Identify the specific primary and secondary sources you used.
    2. Discuss how evidence in these primary and secondary sources strengthened or challenged the focus of your question.

Part 2: Building Context to Address Questions: In this part of the project, you will examine the historical context related to your historical event. The context will be like snapshots that capture what was happening in history that affected the development of your current event.

  1. Describe the context of your historical event that influenced your current event.
    1. How does the context of your historical event help tell the story of what was happening at the time? How might this historical event connect or lead to your current event?
  2. Describe a historical figure or groups participation in your historical event.
    1. This person or people must have directly participated in the event you identified as it was happening, not after it.
    2. Use specific details from your primary and secondary sources to demonstrate how the person or people participated in the event.
  3. Explain the historical figure or groups motivation to participate in your historical event.
    1. Consider why the person or people were motivated to get involved in the event.

Part 3: Examining How Bias Impacts Narrative: Narrative is how people tell stories based on their own assumptions, beliefs, and values. From a historical perspective, narratives influence who we focus on, what we focus on, and how we discuss events and issues in the past and present. Complete the following steps to explore how the stories about your current event and the historical events leading to it have been told.

  1. Describe a narrative you identified while researching the history of your historical event.
    1. There can be multiple narratives depending on your sources. Pick one or two that you feel have been the most influential.
  2. Articulate how biased perspectives presented in primary and secondary sources influence what is known or unknown about history.
    1. How do potentially biased sources influence knowledge of your historical event and current event?
    2. Support your stance with examples from your primary and secondary sources.
  3. Identify the perspectives that you think are missing from your historical events narrative.
    1. Whose stories were not recorded? Whose voices were ignored or silenced?

Part 4: Connecting the Past With the Present: Consider how the work you have done to develop your research question and investigate it can be used to explain connections between the past and present. Complete the following steps to discuss the value of developing historical inquiry skills.

  1. Explain how researching its historical roots helped improve your understanding of your current event.
    1. How did examining your current event from a historical perspective help you better comprehend its origins?
  2. Articulate how questioning your assumptions, beliefs, and values may benefit you as an individual.
    1. Why is it valuable to be aware of your assumptions, beliefs, and values when encountering information in your personal, academic, and professional life?
  3. Discuss how being a more historically informed citizen may help you understand contemporary issues.
    1. Consider how having knowledge of history could influence how you approach current challenges or questions in the world.

What to Submit

To complete this project, submit the completed template or submit a Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the for more information on citations.

History

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 Housing Segregation and Redlining in America

-What is redlining? Where did the name come from? What role did the government play in redlining?–What impact has redlining had on those communities in the red zone? What do those communities look like today?

-What impact did redlining have on those communities in the green zone? What do those communities look like today?

The African American Great Migration and Beyond

-Who does Tolnay describe as the migrants who left the south and why?

-What are some important factors that Tolnay describes as influencing potential destinations of southern migrants?

-Where did the southern migrants go? How did they fare in their new home?

-Tolnay argues that internal migration and residential mobility had important short and long-term impacts on individual Blacks, the Black community, and American society. What were they?

-Why did some migrants begin to return south?

 

List 5 facts from each video (15 in total) that you did not know before watching.  Why did they stand out to you? 

Reconstruction – Part 1

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Reconstruction – Part 2

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Henry Louis Gates and Paula Kerger Lecture

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discussion (European Old and New Worlds)

 

European Old and New Worlds

Purpose and Outcomes

Now that we have expanded our understanding of the terms Old and New Worlds in a Native American context, let’s examine those ideas from a European perspective.

Instructions

Please provide a 150-word minimum response to the following question. Your response is worth seven (7) possible points and should only use the assigned articles, texts, and the optional documentary . Responses should include basic MLA citations when required. Example: (Merrell, 51); (American YAWP, The First Americans): (Guns, Germs, Steel). Responses are due by the deadline posted on Canvas.

  1. How did contact with the Americas generate New Worlds in Europe? How did Europeans maintain Old Worlds in the Americas?

You must also post a minimum 100-word substantive reply to a colleague’s post. Your reply is worth three (3) possible points.

 

link 

 (((  http://www.americanyawp.com/text/01-the-new-world/#I_Introduction )))

discussion

 

Purpose and Outcomes

Traditionally historians employed terms like Old and New World in ways that implied the superiority of one civilization over the other. The Old World was civilized, ancient, connected, and understood. By contrast the New World was unknown, primitive, and discovered. Fortunately those understandings faded while more sophisticated ideas replaced them. James Merrell’s, , and Neil Salisbury’s, will broaden your understanding of those concepts and allow you to apply them in new and meaningful ways.

Instructions

Please provide minimum 200-word responses to each of the following two questions. Your responses should only use the assigned articles. Please include specific information to support your assertions and provide basic MLA citations when required. Example: (Merrell, 47). Each response is worth ten (10) possible points for a total of twenty (20) possible points.

  1. How does Merrell define New Worlds and how does he illustrate his argument? What examples does he use and why?
  2. How does Salisbury define Old Worlds and how does he illustrate his argument? What examples does he use and why?

 

Professor MacQueen

 

For your response posts, address the following:

  1. What perspectives did your peers offer that you had not considered previously regarding the value of a historically informed population?
  2. Share other ways being more historically informed could help your peers understand or act on the community issue they identified.

Kate post

 

Not everyone likes to learn about history, most do not even try, but those that know about past events know about trends in humanity. They know the trial and tribulation that many minorities have gone thru and still continue to go thru today. Sometimes you have to dig deep to uncover the truth about what has happened in the past, most people only know what they learned in history class. Most of what is learned in history books are not the whole story about the events that accured. To know about those things not taught in classes or left out of the history books you must research and read into the matter yourself. By learning about the past, for yourself, you can better understand some of the problems of today, to understand what minorities are fighting for now you must understand what they have come thru and over-came. 

Lynzy post

 

  1. Citizens should have the responsibility of being historically informed as we are constantly making history and can learn from our current and past mistakes. We should be able to look at events such as political decisions and tragic social events such as lynchings and other murders and be able to dig down to the heart of the issue. We should be responsible to heal the issue from the beginning so that we learn from history, but not repeat it. We should be responsible for trying to see the other side of the story before making a judgement call and allow for the possibility of being wrong. Citizens in the U.S. do not (on average) have enough information regarding other countries and how things work there. We know our own history, but we rarely know another countries history and who told them that story. I believe by being taught how to be historically informed we could increase our understanding for cultural differences and this would help global challenges. This is the only way for us to help each other instead of trample on others beliefs and culture because we don’t understand it at first. 
  2.  A current challenge that is affects my community is the possible overturn of Roe v Wade of 1973 absorption law via the Supreme court (link below). Being historically informed about the history of abortion laws and how they differ from state to state and country to country is huge. We can look at states that have banned it and see what those consequences are and vice versa on a smaller scale. We can look back to how long this issue has been in the courts and listen to each side’s strong arguments. Since this topic can be very passionate it would be imperative for anyone advocating for or against the overturn of Roe to strip away their own bias and assumptions to hear and rationalize the opposing sides. Additionally, since the issue keeps coming back up for debate there is a chance for it to come up again in the future to appeal the overturn if it does happen. Being informed with how this kind of abortion law affects not only U.S. citizens but other countries is valuable in the debate to have the courts be apart of the personal decision. Also, how we may be able to alter the rulings or educate people to reduce the amount of unwanted pregnancies is another solution. Starting where the problem begins and continue from there.