Answer the following questions for credit towards this assignment: 1.  What does the Billboard’s best selling list suggest about the popularity of Big Bands in American popular culture during the early 1940’s? 2.  Regarding Benny Goodman’s band playing “Sing, Sing, Sing,” what do you think might have been some of the challenges of managing a […]

Assessment Historians have learned a great deal about the Crusades from chroniclers like William of Tyre and Ibn al-Qalanisi. Today, reporters and newscasters travel all over the world to report on international events, including conflicts. Reporters and world leaders use social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook to connect with the public. Imagine what we […]

Journal 1: What will you want future historians to know about today? Everything that has happened up until this moment is part of history. Historians reconstruct the past based on documents and artifacts that are available to them, and what may be available to a given historian may differ depending on a variety of factors. In this unit, […]

Watch the documentaries/lectures and complete the readings. Pick one of the topics below to discuss. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of becoming ocean bound. Discuss the role of religion in determining relations of power between diverse groups of people who discovered each other when the world became interconnected post 1421. Discuss how Europe becoming ocean bound changed (or […]

Choose two (TOTAL) of the primary sources from the chapters attatched down and answer (FOR EACH): 1. Who wrote the piece (include type of person/title, not just the name), and why? 2. What was the point of the piece? Why did they write it? 3. Who was the audience intended to be? 4. How did the […]