The second research paper must deal with a specific issue, and should support a specific thesis. Please choose from the two essay prompts below. Remember that the prompts provide ideas for the focus of a paper, but they are not thesis statements. Please be
as specific as possible when writing your thesis as a question or claim.
Your essay should be between 4-5 pages double spaced 12 pt. font (1000-1500 words). Cite sources using footnotes (no in-text citations) using examples & quotes from Reading the American Past and your own research to address one of the historical topics below.
1) Identify and analyze a conflict in any decade between the 1930s and 1980s involving groups with different social, cultural worldviews and/or opposing economic perspectives. Does this conflict still exist today and to what extent has progress been made in negotiating the differences?
2) Define and update the ideas behind the “American Promise” after the Second World War. What changed in the second half of the 20th century? How did the promise change during the depression and WWII? Focusing on a specific group of Americans describe the challenges and obstacles they faced and assess the amount of progress they made in fulfilling the America promise for themselves in the last half of the Twentieth Century.
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