Mrs. Mueller - HIS 1007 - American History
HIS 1007 - Helpful Handouts
Assignment Overview Chart
| 01_his1007_assignment_overview_chart_rev._01-2024.pdf |
Week-By-Week Checklist
| his1007_week-by-week_checklist_rev_8-2024.pdf |
Primary Source Reading Chart
| his1007_primary_source_reading_log.docx |
Discussion Board Forums
Discussion Board Instructions & Requirements
| his1007_dbf_instructions_rev._01-2025.pdf |
Checklist - Discussion Boards
| his1007_checklist_for_dbf_01-2024.pdf |
Excerpts for Discussion Boards
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UNIT ONE
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UNIT TWO
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UNIT THREE
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Midterm and Final Exams
Exam Instructions & Requirements
| his1007_exam_instructions_requirements_rev._01-2024.pdf |
Checklist - Exam
| his1007_checklist_for_exams_01-2024.pdf |
Exam Study Guides
| his1007-exam1studyguide_rev_2025_09.pdf |
| his1007-exam2studyguide_rev_2024_10-25.pdf |
| his1007-exam3studyguide_2025_09_better.pdf |
Examples of how to refer to our course materials in your exam essays :
Book Essays
Book Essay Instructions
| his1007_book_essay_instructions_rev._01-2024.pdf |
Books on pdf
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Twelve Years a Slave
NOTE: Page numbers are included in this version so that you can include in-text citations for the examples from the book you use to support your points! VERY IMPORTANT!
The version on our course site does not include page numbers.
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The Things They Carried
NOTE: Page numbers are included in this version so that you can include in-text citations for the examples from the book you use to support your points! VERY IMPORTANT! The page numbers are in red at the end of each page.
NOTE: If you use the version on our course site, you can find page numbers on the bottom right of the screen as you scroll down.
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Checklists - Book Essay
requirements checklist:
| his1007_checklist_for_book_essay_02-2026.pdf |
formatting & grammar checklist:
| his1007_checklist_book_essay_f_g_rev_01-2024.pdf |
Book Essay Grading Rubric
| his1007_book_essay_grading_rubric_rev._01-2024.pdf |
Book Essay Prompt & Thesis Guides
| his1007_book_essay_1_-_prompt___thesis_guide_rev._02-2024.pdf |
| his1007_book_essay_2_-_prompt___thesis_guide_2023_rev._1-2023.pdf |
| his1007_book_essay_3_-_prompt___thesis_guide_2023_rev._4-2023.pdf |
MLA Formatting Information for Book Essays
| mla_in-text_citations_guide_best_version_rev_2023-08.pdf |
| mla_9_quicktips_chart_rev_2023.pdf |
| apa_vs_mla.pdf |
| mla_9th_edition_-_model_word_doc.pdf |
Primary Sources
Week 2
| 02_alfred_w._crosby_on_the_columbian_exchange.pdf |
| 02_columbus_letter_-_internet_history_sourcebooks__medieval_sourcebook.pdf |
| 02_chief_powhatan_-_address_to_captain_john_smith.pdf |
| 02_bradford_-_sickness_among_the_natives.pdf |
Week 3
| 03_a_model_of_christian_charity___teaching_american_history.pdf |
| 03_examination_of_anne_hutchinson_1637.pdf |
| 03_sinner_in_hands_of_angry_god___the_jonathan_edwards_center_at_yale_university.pdf |
Week 4
| 04_avalon_project_-_patrick_henry_-_give_me_liberty_or_give_me_death.pdf |
| 04_common_sense__excerpt__·_shec__resources_for_teachers.pdf |
| 04_paine_common_sense_3and4.pdf |
| 04_avalon_project_-_declaration_of_independence_july_4_1776.pdf |
| 04_declaring_independence_jefferson_rough_draft.pdf |
Week 5
| 05_convention_and_ratification_-_creating_the_united_states___exhibitions_-_library_of_congress.pdf |
| 05_the_constitution_of_the_united_states__a_transcription___national_archives.pdf |
| 05_the_bill_of_rights__a_transcription___national_archives.pdf |
Week 6
| 06_avalon_project_-_washingtons_farewell_address_1796.pdf |
| 06_the_avalon_project___jeffersons_first_inaugural_address.pdf |
| 06__a_religious_flame_that_spread_all_over_kentucky___peter_cartwright_brings_evangelical_christianity_to_the_west_1801-04.pdf |
Week 7
| 07_andrew_jackson_annual_message.pdf |
| 07_calhoun_slavery_as_a_positive_good.pdf |
| 07_douglass_july_4_speech.pdf |
Week 8
| 08_the_avalon_project___first_inaugural_address_of_abraham_lincoln.pdf |
| 08_avalon_project_-_gettysburg_address.pdf |
| 08_the_emancipation_proclamation___national_archives.pdf |
| 08_transcript_of_the_proclamation___national_archives.pdf |
| 08_the_avalon_project___second_inaugural_address_of_abraham_lincoln.pdf |
- Read "Bloody Chasm" through "Warm Springs, VA" in Co. Aytch (begins on p. 11 of the book). Pages 11-19
| 08_co._aytch_-_ch_i_-_retrospective_pg_11-19_short_section.pdf |
- Read "Raw Recruits" in Hard Tack and Coffee (begins on p. 198 of the book). Pages 198-216
| 08_hardtack___coffee_-_ch_x_-_raw_recruits_pg_198-216_short_section.pdf |
Week 9
| 09_ragged_dick__plot_summary___robbins_library_digital_projects.pdf |
| 09_carnegie.gospel_of_wealth.pdf |
| 09_sherman_antitrust_act___wex___us_law___lii___legal_information_institute.pdf |
| 09_amer_anti-imperialist_league_-_internet_history_sourcebooks__modern_history.pdf |
Week 10
| 10_the_steel_workers_from_volume_3_of_the_pittsburgh_survey___osu_ehistory.pdf |
| 10_the_new_nationalism___teaching_american_history.pdf |
| 10_the_eclipse_of_liberalism.pdf |
| 10_making_the_world__safe_for_democracy___woodrow_wilson_asks_for_war.pdf |
Week 11
| 11_daring_to_look__dorothea_langes_photographs_and_reports_from_the_field_by_anne_whiston_spirn_an_excerpt.pdf |
| 11_fdrs_first_inaugural_address_declaring_war_on_the_great_depression___national_archives.pdf |
| 11_speech_by_franklin_d._roosevelt_new_york__transcription___a_machine-readable_transcription_.pdf |
Week 12
| 12_fdr_and_the_four_freedoms_speech_-_fdr_presidential_library___museum.pdf |
| 12_executive_order_9066__resulting_in_japanese-american_incarceration__1942____national_archives.pdf |
Week 13
| 13_avalon_project_-_military-industrial_complex_speech_dwight_d._eisenhower_1961.pdf |
| 13_washingtonpost.com__goldwater_speech.pdf |
| 13_letter_from_a_birmingham_jail_[king_jr.].pdf |
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Week 14
| 14_address_to_the_nation_on_the_war_in_vietnam___the_american_presidency_project.pdf |
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| 14_the_avalon_project___first_inaugural_address_of_ronald_reagan.pdf |
| 14_address_to_members_of_the_british_parliament___ronald_reagan.pdf |
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Week 15
| 15_sebastian_junger__our_lonely_society_makes_it_hard_to_come_home_from_war___ted_talk.pdf |
