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Critical Review Essay Instructions:
Find a Primary Source (first-hand, original work) from U.S. History, 1492 to 1865 (i.e., NOT on foreign history, a secondary source, a children’s work, fiction, textbook, novel, etc.), from the internet or book of primary sources. (A great UMO Library Guide is: https://moc.libguides.com/hist as well as: https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets) A book written by Barack Obama is a Primary Source. A book written by someone else on the life of Barak Obama is a Secondary Source. Examples include, but are not limited to: Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” or George Washington’s “Farewell Address” or The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments” or Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address,” Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall, etc. etc. Write a Critical Essay making sure you include the following:
• Your Critical Review Essay should be 2-4 typed pages, double-spaced, with one-inch margins
• Do not include a separate title page.
• Do include an introduction naming the author, title of the work, background & historical context
• Identify the author’s theme/thesis and provide at least three examples of how he/she supported that thesis
• Include whether you agree or disagree with the author’s thesis and tell why.
• Summarize the work and include the work’s strengths and weaknesses
• Include the essay’s overall contribution to history.
• Use the Chicago Style of documentation and never use MLA or APA