Primary Source Essay

2018 Signature Assignment for United States History 2620

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Based upon your textbook readings and lecture notes examine and analyze the below images. Include in your analysis the historical perspective and events in which the image refers to.

First - Identify and note details - Describe what you see. • What do you notice first? • What people and objects are shown? • How are they arranged? • What is the physical setting? • What, if any, words do you see?

Second - Generate and test hypotheses about the image. Why do you think this image was made? •  What’s happening in the image? • Who do you think was the audience for this image? • What tools were used to create this? • What can you learn from examining this image? • If someone made this today, what would be different? • What would be the same?

Third - How do those events and images continue to profoundly shape America’s view of the world and its place in the world?

Please submit thoughtful arguments that are supported by evidence.

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1 “The White Man’s Burden (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling)” Judge, April 1, 1899.

United States History 2620 images 1. The White Man’s Burden.1

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2. Bank run at New York’s American Union Bank during The Great Depression.2

2 Photo courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives Identifier 12573155.

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3. Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, AR.3

3 Courtesy of the United States Army.

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