History Now, Today and Tomorrow: Course Wrap-up
by Dr. H - December 8th, 2011
Fri 12/9: History Today and Tomorrow.
Your “History Now†project is due in or before class. No electronic submissions, it must be turned in as a paper packet.
Reading for Friday’s class is EH 32:923-929 and Barack Obama’s speech given on December 6, 2011 in Osawatomie, Kansas. Why did he give it there? What parts of US history was he deliberately invoking, and why? How would you set this speech into historical context, given what you now know about US History since 1877 and what you now know how about how historians approach historical texts?
You can either read the speech, or watch it (it takes about an hour to watch).
