You have a lot of intellectual freedom with your final exam essays. This is because there will be a great deal of variety in your interviews. You have to be creative and find a way to turn your interview into a meaningful document that connects back to the specific historical themes and concepts you learned in this course. You will earn the most points if your writing is original, creative, and supported with historical evidence from the course materials. I already know that your subjects will probably not know or discuss the specific historical facts of the Industrial Revolution, or the Vietnam War, or the Civil Rights Movement, or the Cold War, etc. What you have to do is find the larger historical themes and concepts embedded in these events that are still relevant today (and therefore meaningful for your interview subject). For example, the history of the Vietnam War is 30 years long and very complex. Some Americans supported the war and some opposed it but very few hav
