Instruction
The topic of inequality and equality in America between 1865 and the present. The goal, in other words, is to demonstrate your ability to think like a historian by critically analyzing the types of evidence that historians utilize to make sense of the past and to answer the questions that interest us.
To begin this assignment, select at least three primary sources from the course that offer three different perspectives on the nature and experience of equality and/or inequality in the United States. You might choose, for instance, the primary documents that deal with any of the following or other topics:
*race relations,
*immigration,
*imperial politics,
*class inequality,
*religious conflict, or
*gender experiences.
You need not pick a single subject, such as race, but may choose to look at equality and inequality from three different episodes and perspectives from different time periods that intrigue you. Your paper should focus on the primary source documents but also draw on the unit lectures and textbook readings to contextualize those documents.