HISTORY,AMERICAN

TWO –PART OLD SOUTH HIST DISCUSSION QUESTION #2 & PAPER ASSIGNMENT#2 SET UP

QUESTIONS, INSTRUCTIONS & negative feedback regarding the former Discussion # 1 assignment, here (see FYI) and negative feedback for PAPER # ONE in a separate attachment?? Please review BOTH?

FYI - DISCUSSION #1 received an F score, please review the feedback to avoid repeating what is not acceptable. If this assignment is acceptable, please commit to the (2)

TBD - responses to 2 posts of others at a later date, in separate handshake, must be equally scholarly detailed?

FYI -THE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK From discussion #1 & now DONE, please make note!

Professor said, your (my) response was marginal. To receive credit you must first analyze the evidence – using both primary and secondary scholarly sources -- in both the original post to the discussions and the responses (2) to others? FYI (The responses will be another assignment, TBD later after the original post) Providing random opinions on modern politics or making sweeping claims with no legitimate academic evidence will not win you points and fail the course. The discipline of history requires that you analyze evidence closely in order to demonstrate your main points.

New DISCUSSION # 2 Assignment

In 5-7 detailed scholarly paragraphs, professionally written, utilizing the resource material only, properly cited and referenced, respond to question 2 in grad level content.

DISCUSSION #2

THE ONE RESOURSE to be used & cited for discussion #2 (ONLY)!

Jeanette Keith, “The South: A concise History, VOL 1

QUESTION:

Jeanette Keith exposes numerous myths about the society of the Old South told by southerners as well as non-southerners. Many of these myths serve political and cultural purposes. In this discussion each of you should find one myth that she (or the other authors in this section of the course) exposes. Comment on that ONE myth, precisely, intellectually and factually competent in professionally graduate level written content? Properly citing?

INSTRUCTIONS for PART TWO - PAPER TWO

New Paper #2 PROPOSED TITLE: The Society of the Old South History

NOTE: FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT, ONLY THE READING MATERIALSLISTED BELOW MAY BE USED! STRICTLY ENFORCED for ACCURACIES!

Use the following listed; (3) readings & two books resources ONLY (but Northup’s “Twelve Years A Slave” primarily):

1. Twelve Years A Slave, by Solomon Northrup, (BOOK)

2. “The South: A Concise History, VOL 1, by Jeanette Keith,  chapter# 2. (BOOK)

Selected documents to be used ONLY:

3. Letters of William Gilmore Simms, 1826 (READING)

4. Forrest McDonald and Grady McWhiney, “The Antebellum Southern Herdsman: A Reinterpretation,” Journal of Southern History 41, no. 2 (May 1975): 147-166. (READING)

5. Dennis C. Rousey, “Aliens in the WASP Nest: Ethnocultural Diversity in the Antebellum Urban South,” Journal of American History 79, no. 1 (June 1992): 152-164.(READING)

ASSIGNMENT

For each of the three subjects you choose, utilizing and citing the historical information of the content in the articles/ readings, listed as resources above, discuss how Northup portrays each of those 3 subjects (of your choice), in his narrative? Citing its placement in the assigned resources within the new content that is created for this assignment?

6-8 pages

FIRST ; For each of the three subjects you choose,remember utilizing and citing the historical information of the content in the articles/ readings, listed as resources above, discuss how Northup portrays each of those 3 subjects (of your choice), in his narrative?” Citing” its placement of the assigned resources within the new content that is created for this assignment? “THIS instruction IS A MAJOR COMPONET OF THE ASSIGNMENT”?

6-8 pages

SECONDLY; Develop a 6-8 page essay, using the resources listed above exclusively that is professionally written, articulate, competent college content, mindful of inaccuracies, in final draft mode, error free, no editing or revisions necessary.

1. What details about the society of the Old South, at least in Louisiana, does Solomon Northup reveal in his narrative Twelve Years a Slave? Please make note of the geographical location of Louisiana??

2. Pick three from among the subjects discussed in the readings (listed above) for this part of the course:

SECOND; For each of the three subjects you choose, utilizing and citing the historical information of the content in the articles/ readings, listed as resources above, discuss how Northup portrays each of those 3 subjects (of your choice), in his narrative? Citing its placement in the assigned resources within the new content that is created for this assignment?

6-8 pages

SUBJECTS

Agriculture

Life of southern whites

Class distinctions among whites

The urban-rural divide

For each of the three subjects you choose, utilizing and citing the historical information of the content in the articles/ readings, listed as resources above, discuss how Northup portrays each of those 3 subjects (of your choice), in his narrative? Citing its placement in the assigned resources within the new content that is created for this assignment?

6-8 pages