In the Reflection assignments, consider the assigned reading this week, then answer the question that is posed to you below.

Assigned Reading:

1) Robert S. Bourne, “Trans-National American,” (1916),

2) Eugene Debs Statement to the Court before Sentencing under the Espionage Act, (1918),

Each of these assignments should be 400 to 600 words and should cite the assigned reading articles at least twice.  Your citations can be from the same article.  You do not have necessarily to quote the articles.  So if you refer to a particular piece of information, or an antidote, or some kind of insight by the author, put a citation at the end of your sentence and that totally counts.

I am not strict about the format for these assignments, so long as you are legibly showing that you are thinking about the historical material.

  I also won't be strict about citation styles, so long as I can tell what you are citing, but you should get in the habit of citing with either Chicago Manuel Footnotes or MLA parentheticals. 

If you do not know how to cite in those styles, the easiest thing to do is google, "how to cite web articles Chicago footnote" (or MLA), and there are literally dozens of websites that explain how to do it. 

The question for this assignment:

How were Americans redefining their society in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries?