Video review (50 points). Watch
one of the videos listed below and write a review of the movie as if you
were a critic. Explain how the movie was (or was not) historically
accurate. You can suggest a different movie.
Stanley
Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975);
Nicholas Hytner, The Madness of King George (1994); Abel Gance,
Napoléon (1927); Andrzej Wajda, Danton (1983);
Richard Attenborough, Gandhi (1982); David Lean,
Passage to India (1984); William Wellman, Beau Geste
(1939); Cy Endfield, Zulu (1963); Bruce Beresford, Breaker Morant
(1979); Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa (1985); Sergei
Eisenstein, Bronenosets Potëmkin
(Battleship Potëmkin, 1925); Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western
Front (1930); Peter Weir, Gallipoli (1981);
David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia (1962); Frank Borzage, A Farewell
to Arms (1932); Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory (1957); Leni
Riefenstahl, Triumph des Willens
(Triumph of the Will, 1935); Charles Chaplin, The Great Dictator
(1940); Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List (1993); Alain Resnais, Night and
Fog (1955); Alain Resnais, Hiroshima, Mon amour (1960);
David Lean, Bridge on the River
Kwai (1957); Wolfgang Petersen, Das Boot (The Boat, 1981); John
Ford, They Were Expendable (1945); Joseph
Vilsmaier, Stalingrad (1992); Franklin
J. Schaffner, Patton (1970); Grigori Chukhrai, Ballada o soldate
(Ballad of a Soldier, 1959); Bernardo Bertolucci,
The Last Emperor (1987); Richard Attenborough,
Cry Freedom (1987), Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove
(1964); Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter
(1978); Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now (1979); Roland
Joffé, The Killing Fields
(1984); Bill Courturie, Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam (1987), Christian Carion, Joyeux Noel (2005).
Book review (50 points). Write a
review of the book. Do not just summarize the book's contents but also
examine its strengths and weaknesses and place the book in its proper historical
context. You can suggest a different book.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan; John
Locke, Second Treatise of Government; Charles
Darwin, On the Origins of the Species; Karl
Marx, Capital; John Stuart Mill, On Liberty; John
Reed, Ten Days That Shock the World; Adolf
Hitler, Mein Kampf; Nicholas Gage, Eleni; Pa
Chin, Family; Naguib Mahfouz, Fountain and Tomb; Bao
Ninh, The Sorrow of War; Tayeb
Salih, Season of Migration to the North; William
McNeill, Plagues and Peoples; Edward Said, Orientalism; Ida
Pruitt, A Daughter of Han; The Last Manchu; Salman
Rushdie, Midnight's Children; Deneys Reitz, Boer Commando; Mikhail
Gorbachev, Perestroika.
Vacation. 50 points. If, during
this course, you vacation in some place that has significant historical
importance (before 1600 ce), write and submit a short, two-page report,
along with some pictures, in digital form if possible, about that
place. Consult your instructor for approval of your selection
before proceeding.
Vietnam Memorial. 75 points.
Visit the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. and submit a two-page essay
on one of the following themes: (1) explain how the monument was characteristic
of the artistic movement known as "Minimalism" (after defining Minimalism);
(2) explain how, first, France and, then, the United States became involved
in Vietnam and what the outcome was.
National Gallery of Art. 75 points.
Visit the collection of the Impressionists at the National Gallery of Art
and submit a brief, two-page essay explaining how certain, specific paintings
illustrate some of the characteristics of Impressionism. Please
send a brochure or ticket (will not be returned) as evidence of your visit to:
Extended Learning Institute
ATTN: HIS 112
(Put your instructor's name here)
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3796
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (75 points).
Visit the Korea Gallery at the Museum of Natural History and submit
a one-two page essay explaining what you discovered. Note some specific artifacts from the exhibit. Please
send a brochure or ticket (will not be returned)
as evidence of your visit to:
Extended Learning Institute
ATTN: HIS 101
(Put your instructor's name here)
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3796
Dumbarton Oaks. 75 points. Visit
Dumbarton Oaks at 1703 32nd St., NW, and describe what you saw. Also include
a brief, two-page report of the founding of the United Nations (part of
which took place at 1944 meetings at Dumbarton Oaks) and its development. Please
send a brochure or ticket (will not be returned) as evidence of your visit to:
Extended Learning Institute
ATTN: HIS 112
(Put your instructor's name here)
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3796
National Air and Space Museum.
75 points. Visit the National Air and Space Museum on the Mall and write
a short, two-page report that describes the exhibits and how they fit into
the space race. Please
send a brochure or ticket (will not be returned) as evidence of your visit to:
Extended Learning Institute
ATTN: HIS 112
(Put your instructor's name here)
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3796
Classical music concert. 75 points.
Attend a classical symphony, chamber concert or opera and submit a short,
two-page report explaining what you heard, who the composer was and how
his music fit into the classical era. Please
send a brochure or ticket (will not be returned) as evidence of your visit to:
Extended Learning Institute
ATTN: HIS 112
(Put your instructor's name here)
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3796.
Holocaust Museum. 75 points.
Visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC and write a short, two-page report
describing the Holocaust and its impact on the Western World. Please
send a brochure or ticket (will not be returned) as evidence of your visit to:
Extended Learning Institute
ATTN: HIS 112
(Put your instructor's name here)
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3796
Interview project. 100 points.
Interview and record the views of at least five people who lived through,
or participated in, one of the following: the Great Depression, World War
I, World War II, the postwar Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War
or the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. Using the information in the textbook and
the quotations of the people interviewed, write a short, organized three-page
paper about the impact of that event on the lives of people in the world.
Freer Gallery (75 points). Visit the
Asian art collections at the Freer Gallery and submit
a brief essay explaining how certain specific paintings/sculptures/artworks
defined some characteristics of Asian art in the nineteenth century. Please
send a brochure or ticket (will not be returned) as evidence of your visit to:
Extended Learning Institute
ATTN: HIS 112
(Put your instructor's name here)
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3796
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (75 points). Visit the
Asian art collections at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and submit
a brief essay explaining how certain specific paintings/sculptures/artworks
defined some characteristics of Asian art in the twentieth century (Cite some specific
examples.). Please
send a brochure or ticket (will not be returned) as evidence of your visit to:
Extended Learning Institute
ATTN: HIS 112
(Put your instructor's name here)
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3796
National Museum of African Art (75 points). Visit
the collections at the National Museum of African Art and submit
a brief essay explaining how the museum's collection of masks and sculpture
indicate some of the characteristics of African art (Cite some
specific examples.). Please
send a brochure or ticket (will not be returned) as evidence of your visit to:
Extended Learning Institute
ATTN: HIS 112
(Put your instructor's name here)
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3796
Art Museum of the Americas (75 points). Visit
the collections at the Art Museum of the Americas and submit
a brief essay explaining how the museum's collection
illustrates some of the directions taken
by Latin American art since 1945 (Cite some specific examples.). Please
send a brochure or ticket (will not be returned) as evidence of your visit to:
Extended Learning Institute
ATTN: HIS 112
(Put your instructor's name here)
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3796
The Phillips Collection. 75 points.
Visit the collection of modernist paintings at the Phillips Collection
and submit a brief, two-page essay explaining how certain, specific paintings
illustrate some of the characteristics of modernism. Please
send a brochure or ticket (will not be returned) as evidence of your visit to:
Extended Learning Institute
ATTN: HIS 112
(Put your instructor's name here)
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3796
Walters Art Museum (75 points). Visit
the Walters Art Museum and submit a brief essay explaining what is so wonderful about a
Chinese vase (Cite some specific examples.) Please
send a brochure or ticket (will not be returned) as evidence of your visit to:
Extended Learning Institute
ATTN: HIS 112
(Put your instructor's name here)
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3796
Hillwood Museum & Gardens (75 points). Visit
the beautiful collections of the Hillwood Museum & Gardens and submit a
brief essay describing the work of Fabergé's Russian workshop (Cite some specific examples.). Please
send a brochure or ticket (will not be returned) as evidence of your visit to:
Extended Learning Institute
ATTN: HIS 112
(Put your instructor's name here)
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3796
International Spy Museum (75 points). Visit
the International Spy Museum and submit a
brief essay examining the role of espionage in the Cold War (Cite some specific
examples.). Please
send a brochure or ticket (will not be returned) as evidence of your visit to:
Extended Learning Institute
ATTN: HIS 112
(Put your instructor's name here)
Northern Virginia Community College
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3796
Note that if you have any other proposals
for a project, such as a visit to an out-of-town museum like any of those located in New York, please contact your instructor for approval and point value
before you begin.
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