History 289 Day 8: Shitty notes

  • Housekeeping and Course Updates

    • Reading Quizzes:

    • Grades for the first reading quiz average around 8787 (B+).

    • Comments are available on Canvas from Shireen, highlighting areas to focus on for the next quiz.

    • Quizzes are being handed back to demonstrate point accumulation.

    • Second Reading Quiz (Wednesday):

    • Format Change: Different from the first quiz, which covered weeks 11 and 22 with two readings (one primary source).

    • Question 1 (Concept Question): Explain in your own words one of the author's central concepts, ideas, or arguments from a reading.

    • Question 2 (ID Question): Choose two out of three given options.

      • Each option will be a key idea (historical figure, event, place, ship, etc.) from one of the readings.

      • You must identify it (who, what, where, when) and explain its significance for the author's main argument.

    • Grading: Each question is worth 1010 points, totaling 3030 points for the quiz (up from 2020 points for the first quiz).

    • First Short Essay (Due Next Friday, Oct 3):

    • Goal: Practice historiographical analysis by comparing two texts.

    • Method: Select one assigned reading from the course and choose a related, scholarly secondary source of your own from the same time period, topic, or region.

    • Analysis: Compare how different historians approach the work, their assumptions, methods, insights, and analyses of causation, contingency, or complexity.

    • Recommendation for this week: Select an assigned reading and find/start reading a related secondary text.

    • Secondary Source Requirements: Must be credible and scholarly (written by a credentialed scholar, preferably a historian, published in an academic venue like a book, edited collection, or peer-reviewed journal). Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, or history.com articles are not acceptable.

    • Ineligible Readings: The Preston article and the Boston King narrative cannot be used as they are not research-based articles (one is a primary source, the other a personal reflection).

    • Eligible Readings: Any assigned reading from weeks 22 to 77 is fair game.

    • Rubric: A grading rubric will be shared next Monday.

  • Current Events: Visa Issues and US Foreign Relations Impacts

    • ICE Detention of South Korean B-1 Visa Workers:

    • Approximately 300300 South Korean workers at a Hyundai factory in Georgia were detained.

    • B-1 visas are generally for short-term business travel, not work, but companies like Hyundai used them for cost-saving on H-1B visas, leading to