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A 750 - 1,000 word essay that presents:

  1. Your research by describing the major questions you are asking, and the sources you will explore to answer those questions.
  2. Tell us why you are interested in expanding on your knowledge and practice of applied history.
  3. Take a few minutes to look over Limerick’s Legacy of Conquest, (a book that will turn thirty-five-years old in 2022). Without a moment’s anxiety over a defensive response from its author, explain how you think this book is showing its age.
  4. Identify one or two compelling questions now driving the study of American history but missing from (or under-developed in) this book. Identify one or two compelling questions now driving the study of American history (and possibly appearing in your own work) but missing from (or under-developed in) this book.
  5. If your dreams came true and broad sectors of the public paid attention to your research findings, what benefits for humanity would benefit from the result?
Files must be less than 50 MB.
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