History Extension

This is a significant part of the course and may be considered a HSC major work. 70% of the students’ internal assessment mark is allocated to the project.

According to the NESA syllabus: “The essay should include an argument in response to a precise question with evidence in support, the sources of which are acknowledged. It will be in written form and may be accompanied by appropriate graphic texts only as appendices (apart from short explanatory captions). The essay must not exceed 2500 words.”

Three other parts are also required to be submitted: a proposal for the essay; a process log book and an annotated bibliography.

Lachlan Crowe

“Assess how changing methodologies within history have allowed for historical interpretations of early Celtic activity and expansion to change over time”.

 

 

Jack Hammond

“To what extent can journalists be considered historians? An analysis of historians and journalists on the War on Terror.”

Sam Hollinger

“Assess the significance of Samuel P. Huntington in the Historical Interpretations of Post-Cold War Global Political Theory.”

 

Michael Krizan

“Evaluate how the construction of Palestinian historiography has been influenced by the emergence of postcolonial theory and Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978).”

Ashley Kwan

“Explain why the original interpretations of Emperor Commodus have not been seriously challenged by historians”

Tom McElvogue

“Synthetic History and Monuments to Mythology: The Lost Cause Myth of the American Civil War.”
Analyse why the historiography of Civil War has been manipulated

Jose Monk

“Through close reference to Ernst Nolte and Jurgan Habermas, account for the changing nature of the debate on The Historikerstreit.”

James Ormsby

“History, to be above evasion, must stand on documents not on opinion.” – Lord Acton Assess this statement in relation to the varying interpretations of Toussaint Louverture

Angus Pratt

“Assess the significance of Georges Lefebvre in the interpretation of the peasantry’s role in the French Revolution.”

Riley Seeto

“Explain why interpretations of Heisenberg’s role/involvement in the German Atomic Bomb project (Uranprojekt) in WWII have CHANGED over time.”