1. Each student is required to read a special feature book in this course. After completing the book, submit a 600 word scholarly review to be submitted in Assignments by the end of the course. Students are advised to structure their review with approximately 400 word summary of the book’s parts and main argument. The remaining part of the book review should be a scholarly response to the book. This review must be original.
Joanne Pope Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England 1780-1860 (Cornell: Cornell University Press, 2000)
Plagiarizing this assignment will lead to automatic failure of the course no matter the test average.
2. The Oregon Trail is a computer game designed to provide examples of what life was like for settlers during westward expansion.
For this assignment, you will write a reflection paper on your experience playing the game.
You must play the game twice, selecting a different starting profession each time. The paper should be 500 words in length and discuss your game including:
・Your starting career
・When you started and finished
・Perils confronted or successes as a result of career or opportunities and outcome.
・Number in party at both beginning and end, what happened to them?
・Explain how this experience relates to the lectures, reading, or other resources in the course or through academic research.
・Finally, were there any parallels to you own life experiences, current societal norms, or situations that could be applied to other historical events or eras?
Please use one of the following links to access the game:
com/oregon-trail.html”>https://classicreload.com/oregon-trail.html
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990
3. In a 500 word review (in the mode of a film critic or food critic) review ONE exhibit featured as a museum that falls in the timeline of our class (the origins of North American history to 1877). This museum can be local or national, or even international depending on where you are based. Try to describe what narrative the museologist is trying to convey about American history.
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