This week you will take a digital field trip to view the Founding Documents Gallery at the National Archives. Located in Washington D.C., the National Archives are dedicated to preserving important historical and cultural documents, including the founding documents of the United States. Your visit to the digital archive will help you develop your understanding of definitions of democracy and political revolution, and provide key details about the contexts that these forms emerge from.

need to:

Read the Lesson for the week

Engage in weekly Discussions to help develop ideas

Visit the National Archives at: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs (Links to an external site.)

Links to an external site.

Produce a two-page reflection assignment (see description below)

For your reflection assignment for this week, please select one primary example from the archive and address the following in a two-page reflection assignment:

Describe the example you have selected and provide the specific URL and the image

Explain the origins and context of the example

Include examples from the textbook this week that help develop your analysis of the work and its context

Provide a link to contemporary issues in government to help discuss the influence that these documents continue to have on contemporary cultural patters