Exercising Historical Interpretation:
Essay on the Changing Meanings of Freedom

Writing an essay is a skill that you will be called upon to use through out your college career. As with all skills, writing an essay takes practice to master. This project is designed to give you some experience writing the kind of essay you may find on many college exams. Rather than doing the essay in class, with the clock ticking, we are going to take the time to begin drafting the essay in class, but then you will take what you have started home and polish it up.

Your assignment is to write a 4- page essay in response to the following question:

What do you think the idea of freedom has represented to Americans since the time of the American Revolution?

To answer this question, you should use the information in the textbook, Give Me Liberty! and in class lectures. You do not need to do any research beyond these assigned class materials. Essays should be typed, double-spaced.

Please save your essay as a Microsoft Word document. Essays must be submitted through Blackboard VISTA.

Essays are due on Friday, April 24 by 11:59pm.

This assignment is worth 100 pts.