History 427
Fall, 2006

QUESTIONS FOR THIRD PAPER

Choose one of the following questions and write a 4-6 page (1000-1700 word) paper in answer to it. All papers must be word-processed, double-spaced, WITH A LARGE12 POINT FONT and written in the best possible English that you can muster. Papers should include pagination and a word count. Follow the guidelines provided in the handout, "Writing Papers." Your answers should be drawn from the readings, lectures, and online materials. MAKE SURE THAT YOU USE ALL OF THE READINGS PERTINENT TO THE QUESTION, NOT JUST THOSE MENTIONED IN THE QUESTION, MAKING SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO THE AUTHORS.  Try to work Stories of Scottsboro into your essay wherever possible.

1. According to David M. Kennedy, "The New deal can be seen to have left in place a set of institutional arrangements that constituted a more coherent pattern than is dreamt of in many philosophies. That pattern can be summarized in a single word: security..." (p. 365)  Discuss how this issue of "security" was embodied in FDR's speeches and New Deal legislation.  

2.   Historian Harvard Sitkoff writes in A New Deal for Blacks (Oxford university Press, 1978) that "something vital did begin in the Thirties. Negro expectations rose; black powerlessness decreased; white hostility diminished."  Discuss the validity of this assessment.

3. What were the greatest successes and the greatest failures of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal?

PAPERS ARE DUE NOVEMBER 16.