Course Name: American Civic Literacy
Course Number: HIS100
Textbook(s): OpenStax College. (2013). U.S. History. Houston, TX: OpenStax CNX. Retrieved from https://openstax.org/details/books/us-history
Required Readings:
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text
The Bill of Rights Institute. Federalist 39. https://billofrightsinstitute.org/primary-sources/federalist-no-39
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/
USHistory.org. Hamilton's Financial Plan. https://www.ushistory.org/US/18b.asp
Economicshelp.org. Mercantilism theory and examples.
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/17553/trade/mercantilism-theory-and-examples/
Economicshelp.org. Advantages of Free Trade. https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/1941/trade/advantages-of-freetrade/
Wilkinson, Freddie. National Geographic. (May 30, 2025) Industrialization, Labor and Life.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/industrialization-labor-and-life/
Wilkinson, Freddie. National Geographic. (Nov. 15, 2025) Industrial Revolution and Technology
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/industrial-revolution-and-technology/
History In Charts. (Sept. 14, 2022) Why was the Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision Important?
https://historyincharts.com/dred-scott-supreme-court-decision-important/
Jefferson Davis, in The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Fourth Series (1900),
I, 104-106. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/188/mode/2up as included in Allosso, Dan.
American History Told By Contemporaries.
https://minnstate.pressbooks.pub/ushistory1/chapter/principles-of-the-confederacy-1861/
Hale, Benjamin. (Nov. 14, 2023). Emancipation Proclamation: Effects, Impacts and Outcomes. History Cooperative.
https://historycooperative.org/effects-emancipation-proclamation/
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation/transcript.html
American Battlefield Trust. Gettysburg. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/gettysburg
National Constitution Center. The Gettysburg Address (1863). https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historicPage 1 of 4Rev. 05/2025