You are assigned to read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, Chapter 12 titled, “The Empire and the People,” and Howard Zinn & Anthony Arnove’s, Voices of a People’s History of the United States, Chapter 12 titled, “The Expansion of the Empire” respectively. You will find that both works complement one another.

Textbook: http://library.lol/main/4FB5173D846F7803B5E94015EF3DB702?fbclid=IwAR2igVbxiHkU9LN_PD_yoJQ0hjbYDP9CH1waMvsdTQhfUosgs4NqnjvNSxo

Journal Content

The content of these journals is based on the required readings for the current or past two weeks. The other purpose of this journal exercise is to assess your engagement with the readings.

• Sample Journal Entry: I often wondered what was the role of Mexican-American women in U.S. history, after reading Ruiz’s work, it became clear that women that looked like me were movers and shakers of social movements equally or greater to men. For example, Luisa Moreno became______.