questions about what you want to understand better about the past.
1) Identify the broad historical topic that you want to write about. Don't be afraid to think big at first!
You topic can be taken from any number of the themes, events, or concepts that we read about or discuss in-class. For example, you might explore an issue that is addressed in lecture in greater depth, such as racial segregation in the military during WWII, conservative responses to the New Deal, or the use and support of art and culture by the state during the 1930s.
You might explore a specific "angle" on a particular historical event that we discuss, for example, the response of the U.S. communist party to the "Nazi-Soviet Pact," the responses of particular trade unions to the Taft-Hartley legislation restricting the tactics of labor organization, the local responses in Seattle to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, to Japanese internment, or the impact of the McCarthyism at the......
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