Sources for America’s History: Printed Page 793

COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

  1. Question

    Compare Albright’s speech with the foreign policy views expressed by John Foster Dulles (Document 25-5). How do their views differ, and what factors account for those differences? Analyze the historical context of the 1950s and 1990s for clues.

  2. Question

    What evidence does the Seattle WTO protest provide for understanding changes in social protest politics during the late twentieth century? Compare strategies at Seattle with the Indians of All Tribes proclamation (Document 27-5). What comparison could a historian make between the WTO protest and the civil rights movement?

  3. Question

    What historical patterns can you identify in the experience of racial and ethnic minorities in America by comparing the evidence from Proposition 187 to the Citizen Committee letter (Document P7-1), the World War II African American soldier’s letter (Document P7-5), Luisa Moreno’s speech (Document P7-6), and Cesar Chavez’s letter from Delano (Document 28-4)? How were the challenges similar or different in these different periods?

  4. Question

    What challenges face the historian attempting to write the history of contemporary America? How might personal opinion and memory interfere with the analysis of the last chapter’s documents more than previous chapters’ sources?