Historical Documents and Journal Articles

Learning Objective: Appraise and analyze historical documents and peer-reviewed historical
journal articles so as to summarize their contents and weigh their significance.

Activity: Turnitin Assignment
Directions: Respond to the following critical thinking exercise in formal paragraph form, lines
double-spaced, in either Arial or New Times Roman 12 point font. Students are required to
answer the critical thinking exercise in formal written paragraph form via attachment submitted
to Turnitin. Please see the syllabus for instructions to submit your document to Turnitin. This
assignment is due to Turnitin

Question: Analyze, compare, and contrast Ulysses S. Grant’s and Samuel R.
Watkins’s accounts of the Battle of Shiloh. What do their accounts reveal about the
battle? How are their accounts similar and different? Explain fully.

Use of Internet websites that are not peer-reviewed by professional historians, such as
history.com and Wikipedia, are expressly forbidden. You may use such Internet sources
that are provided via Watson Library’s website, such as JStor, for peer-reviewed journal
articles or e-books. Lastly, the instructor reserves the right to weigh Grammar & Spelling
more, especially if the assignment is terribly written and formatted.