HIST 301: The Historians Craft (Sheriff, Spring 2024)

In this session, we will discuss:

• Finding articles using subject databases
  • Using America: History & Life
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• Find books using WORLDCAT
• Review primary sources that were hard to find
• Discuss our primary source databases and how to use them

• Using Worldcat
• Reading Newspapers, aka "seriously, which years do you actually have"
• historiographical essays
• subject encyclopedias
• book reviews
• unpublished diaries and letters
• published diaries, letters, and memoirs
• broadsides
• songs
• artwork