Essays

This template includes three sample essays with header information and information about Southwest food history written with AI assistance as placeholder content. They’re here to demonstrate what student essays can look like: how to use images, pull quotes, scrolling backgrounds, and other Xanthan components in a longer piece of writing.

Browse them to get a feel for the format. When you’re ready to build your own project, you’ll replace these with your students’ essays — same structure, your topic.

Cultural legacies of the US and Japan post 1980

How the United States and Japan have shared culture since the 1980s

McCarthyism

A history of McCarthyism from the Second Red Scare to the intervention of the Warren Court.

The Personal Computer

A social and cultural history of the personal computer.

Hippies

A history of the Hippie Movement.