Overview
Purpose: The goal of this assignment is for you to analyze historical documents to deepen your critical reading and analytical writing skills.
Directions: Each student will choose ONE primary document listed in their respective Units. Students will then write an essay analyzing their document based on the following prompt:
What insight does the primary source provide on the respective topic and/or historical period?
Your paper should:
- Be TWO pages long.
- Contain a clear thesis statement addressing the respective prompt in the first paragraph.
- Historical context provided by the textbook, accompanied by ONE proper footnote citation: George Brown Tindall and David Emory Shi, America: A Narrative History, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2013), pg#. (YOU DON'T HAVE TO CITE THE PRIMARY DOCUMENT.)
To support your thesis and analysis of the artifact, you should provide relevant historical context, explain the artifact's purpose or perspective, and convey it's relevancy, or importance, to American History.