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Collected Item: “Utilizing American History to Understand Present Day Events”

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Utilizing American History to Understand Present Day Events

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Essay, meme, tweet

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

For my HIS 103 final project, I wrote an essay about how Americans utilize media platforms to draw connections between American history and current events. The similarities that contemporary Americans create reveal that while much has changed legally, our country continues to remain divided on the same topics.

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#HIS103, #NiagaraUniversity, #BLM, #AmericanCivilWar, #CurrentEvents, #AmericanHistory, #PresidentTrump, #IndigenousAmericans, #ReligiousFreedom, #Election2020, #PresidentialElection, #Meme, #Tweet, #StudentEssay

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Serena Leatherbarrow

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2020-12-07
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