Directions: in this activity, students will consider the present-day relevance of history. Students will choose an article from the list provided by your instructor inside this folder depicting a current event. In several paragraphs (2-3), students will summarize (in their OWN words), the main...
In American politics, people often compare their enemies to Hitler or to the Nazis. Many Democrats compared Trump to a "fascist," and Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez famously compared child detention facilities to "concentration camps." (Republicans claimed this was an unfair comparison and disrespectful to the real...
If you read "Under a Cruel Star," answer and discuss the following question: Heda Kovaly endured not one but two of the most violent ideologies of the 20th century: a Czech/Jewish survivor of Hitler's Holocaust, her husband then executed on trumped-up charges by Stalin's minions....
In American politics, people often compare their enemies to Hitler or to the Nazis. Many Democrats compared Trump to a "fascist," and Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez famously compared child detention facilities to "concentration camps." (Republicans claimed this was an unfair comparison and disrespectful to the real...
If you read "Under a Cruel Star," answer and discuss the following question: Heda Kovaly endured not one but two of the most violent ideologies of the 20th century: a Czech/Jewish survivor of Hitler's Holocaust, her husband then executed on trumped-up charges by Stalin's minions....
Using two (2) readings on First Hand Accounts of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Lesson 5.4, assess the mechanisms of the Atlantic Slave Trade. What motivated Africans and Europeans to willingly participate in it (so, i.e. I am not talking about enslaved people here)? What motivated...
the Rise of Christianity Rodney Stark book Chapter 2: 1. What does Stark say is the traditional view of the class of early Christians? How does he modify that view? What do you think of his argument and evidence? Chapter 4: 1. How does...