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HIST 150: Unlearning US History (Fall 2025)
The Problem with Historical Memory
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HIST 150: Unlearning US History (Fall 2025)
Introduction
In This Session (10/14/25)
Getting Started
Welcome to your W&M Libraries! Overview of Services & Resources
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How do we have so many Resources?
Libraries Undergraduate Library Research Awards
Primary VS Secondary Sources
Secondary Sources
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What is Peer Review?
Types of Sources
Evaluating Books & Articles
Examples
Evaluating Web Resources
Searching: AND OR NOT
Finding Articles (Secondary Sources)
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How to order books/articles/DVDs we don't own?
Finding Books (Secondary Sources)
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How to order books/articles/DVDs we don't own?
Finding Books via Reviews
Finding Film Reviews
Reference (Tertiary) Sources
Finding Primary Sources in the Catalog
Finding Primary Sources in Databases
Primary Sources at WM Archives
Citation
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Zotero
Stuck or need help? No problem!
Scavenger Hunt (Parts 1-4, Secondary Sources)
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1. Finding Books
2. Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Reference
3. Book Reviews
4. Peer Reviewed Articles
Scavenger Hunt (Part 5, Primary Sources)
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Broadsides
Correspondence (letters)
Government Materials (inc. Treaties)
Memoirs and Autobiographies
Narratives of the enslaved / formerly enslaved
Historic Newspapers
Historic Magazines (Periodicals)
Personal Papers
Diaries
Personal Papers
Travel Journals
Not sure where to start?
Wrap Up
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