For your Essay 4 submission, please select one (1) of the Reading Options below. Then select the corresponding Writing Prompt to formulate your essay on. At the beginning of your essay, be sure to identify the reading upon which your essay is based. Your Essay should be between 2-3 pages; please keep the essay to no more than 3 pages. Format: MLA, Chicago, APA (Instructor: please retain the Writing format style you prefer and remove the other two options listed - also remove this sentence as well), Doubled-spaced, typed, font in Times New Roman or Arial, size 12. 1-inch margins all around. Written work for this course is to be submitted only in either Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Be very detailed and specific in writing your essay and be sure to follow all writing guidelines and conventions established in this course.

Reading is a significant part of any historical project. Students selecting an essay topic are also encouraged to use an additional source or two to enhance the experience. Please do not cite the textbook and online reference sources Wikipedia and Britannica, Infoplease, Sparknotes, Answers.com, Ask.com, et cetera. Make use of the online readings posted on the Calendar, supplemental materials posted in the session folders, or journal articles, government documents, newspapers, magazines, and books available through Ivy Tech Library’s Discover! Links to an external site.or print sources at your local library.

Essay 4 - Reading Option 1:

1-Reading(s) - The_FBI_and_the_Civil_Rights_Movement_during_the_Kennedy_Years_from_the_Freedom_Rides_to_Albany.pdf

Writing Prompt - Describe the two competing mandates of the F.B.I. beginning with the Roosevelt Administration through the Kennedy administration. How did these different mandates interfere or support the Freedom Riders of 1961, and other Civil Rights initiatives and what sort of considerations were claimed as necessary for the F.B.I. when alerting state and local police departments about specific Civil Rights related actions? How were these considerations distorted to absolve the F.B.I. from responsibility for taking action during the Civil Rights movement? What was the reaction of those working to secure civil rights and the roll of the F.B.I.?

Essay 4 - Reading Option 2:

1-Reading(s) - Conservative Intellectuals and the Reagan Ascendancy

Writing Prompt - What are the differences between the "Arch-Conservatives" or "Old Right" Conservatives and the Neoconservatives? How are "Liberals" different from the "Conservatives"? How was the "Reagan Ideology" a mix of Liberal and Conservative ideas? How are the points of continuity in conservatism its main points of tension?

Essay 4 - Reading Option 3:

1-Reading(s) - Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War: The Debate Continues

Writing Prompt - According to the author of this article what was the order of events that led to the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? What specific changes to the foreign policy of the Reagan Administration occurred to encourage an end to the Cold War?

Essay 4 - Reading Option 4:

1-Reading(s) - The Folly of Empire

Writing Prompt - Describe the lessons of history that the author accuses the Bush Administration of ignoring. What have been the results of that willful disregarding of history?