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  • Research Papers
    • All Writing is Conversation
    • Doing the Research
    • Questions to Ask of Any Primary Source Document
    • Scholarly Sources and other Key Definitions
    • The Peer Review Process
    • How to Write an Annotated Bibliography
      • Example Proposal and Annotated Bibliography
    • What is an Abstract?
    • Introductions
      • Workshop-Introductions
      • The Thesis Sentence
        • Workshop – Thesis Sentence
    • Sentences with Meat on their Bones
      • Sentences: Cutting Words
      • Workshop: Cutting Words
      • Sentences: Eliminating the Passive Voice
    • Quotations – SIE
      • MLA Citations and More
    • Paragraphs
      • In Class Workshop – Paragraphs
    • Structure: Using your Critics, Creating Suspense, Changing Tack
      • Workshop: Revealing your Structure to your reader
    • Maps, Images and Graphs
    • Understanding Marking Symbols
    • Is it a novel? A monograph? A speech?
    • Other Resources
  • 20th Century History
    • 20th C Final Exam
    • 20th C Analytic Essay
    • 20th C Midterm
      • Mistakes we made
    • The Belle Époque
    • 1900-1914
    • Money. Gold. Countercyclical Spending
    • WWI
    • Race, Jazz, America in the 20s and 30s
    • Revolution, Masculinity, the Futurists
    • The 1930s
    • WWII
      • WWII Jigsaw
      • Maus and Spiegelman
      • Concentration Camps and the Gulag
    • Post War 1940s
    • Civil Rights in the 1950s-60s
    • Space Race and the Counter Culture 1950s
    • Looking at the 1960s
    • 1960s
    • Decolonization
      • Monday Wednesday
      • Tuesday/ Thursday
      • Algeria
      • Sierra Leone
      • Vietnam (Indochine)
    • Feminism
    • 1970s
    • Neoliberalism and Culture in the 80s
    • 1990s
    • Into the Twenty-First Century
      • Timothy Snyder following the election of Trump
  • Western Civilization
    • Online Learning Platforms
    • Assignments/Essays/Exams
      • Midterm Exam
      • French Component
      • Winter 2017 WC Analytic Essay
      • Essay Assignment
        • Topic # 1: Food and the Columbian Exchange
          • Primary Source – Topic # 1 – Columbus and Hernán Cortés
          • Primary Source – Topic # 1 – Bernal Diaz
        • Topic # 2: Imperialism
          • Primary Source for Topic # 2: Imperialism — Hobson
          • Primary Source – White Man’s Burden, Rudyard Kipling
          • Primary Source – Topic # 2 – Imperialism
          • Secondary Source – Topic # 2 – Imperialism
        • Topic # 3: Women’s Rights in Modern History
          • Olympe de Gouges, 1791
          • Henrietta Beeton’s Advice on Household Management
        • Topic # 4: Socialism and Communism
      • Tableau Vivant
      • Final Exam
        • Example Identify and State the Significance
    • Ancient and Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Empires
      • Ancient and Classical Greece Readings
      • The Late Bronze Age–Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece
      • The Agora
    • Rome
      • Readings for Rome
    • The Monotheistic Religions
      • Readings for Monotheistic Religions
      • The Spread of Islam
        • The Madrasa
        • The House of Wisdom
      • The Crusades
    • The Middle Ages
      • Year 1000 Readings and Jigsaw
    • Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
      • Readings for Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
      • The Black Plague
    • The Reformation
      • Readings for the Reformation
      • St. Peter’s Basilica
    • Encounter
      • Readings for Encounter
      • The Atlantic Economy
      • Templo Mayor
        • Cups with Handles and a Brief History of Chocolate
    • Absolutism
      • Readings for Absolutism
      • The Thirty Years War
    • The Scientific Revolution
      • Readings for Scientific Revolution
      • Coins and Paper Money
    • The Enlightenment
      • Enlightenment Readings
      • The Age of Reason
    • The French Revolution
      • Readings for French Revolution
      • Versailles and the Baroque
      • Napoleon
        • Canning and Napoleon’s Wars.
      • 18th Century
        • Love, The Renaissance, and Modernization
      • The Paris Commune
    • The Industrial Revolution
      • Readings for Industrial Revolution
      • Notes from the Communist Manifesto
      • Prisons, Schools and Factories: Architectures of Control in the 19th C
      • Pre-Scramble Africa
      • Telegraphs, Photographs and Bicycles on the American Frontier
      • Romanticism
    • Fin de siècle
      • Readings for Fin de siècle
      • Fin de siècle
      • Early Colour Photography
      • Ezra Pound
      • Surgery
    • Nationalism and Imperialism
    • 20th Century
      • Futurism
      • The Trench
      • On Mass Destruction in War
      • The Russian Revolution
      • Dictatorship in Latin America
    • Imagining the World
      • Maps at Encounter
      • Maps of the Modern World
      • Post-Scramble for Africa
      • David Byrne on the influence of Architecture on Music
  • First Peoples’ Resurgence
    • IS Oral Presentations
      • Oral Presentation # 1
      • Oral Presentation # 2
      • Oral Presentation # 3
      • Oral Presentation # 4
      • Oral Presentation # 5
    • Indian Act 1876
    • In the News
    • Self Evaluation
    • A Place to Start
  • Meditation
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