Please complete before Spring Break. This will count toward the formulation of your 3rd quarter grade, as well as determine our historical focus in the 4th quarter. Direct link here.

Here's a little more info regarding tomorrow's speaker, Fred Schmidt, New Trier grad and Olympic Gold Medal winner (1964). Schmidt is a "former Navy Seal who opened the Apollo 15 space capsule, and is currently living in Guatemala doing community development work. Interestingly, he went to law school and then quit being a lawyer to join the Navy."

Please make sure you go directly to McGee, and check in with the sub for attendance purposes.

Keeping in mind your task ahead, how do the following two artists help inform our understanding of the history of race in America? How can we reboot the period of Reconstruction to result in a better historical outcome?