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HIST 150: Southern Queery (Spring 2023)

Getting Started

Foremost: look at your secondary sources and see what types of primary sources they use!

Then wrote out your topic again, but this time try find terms people might have used during the time period you're studying.

Most Important tip: USE AS FEW TERMS AS POSSIBLE.

The more search terms you use, the more likely you'll use an anachronistic term. Keep it simple, no more than 2 or 3 terms at once.

Not sure were to start? Try the main catalog.

Limit to your time period of interest and see what comes up! 

Note that it points me to a bunch of materials in Special Collections!
It also points me to the keyword & digitized Flat Hat, Colonial Echo, and other useful W&M materials

Oral Histories, Letters, Published Papers In the Catalog

Use these terms to find specific types of sources in the catalog:

Sources
Narratives
Broadsides
Correspondence 
Biography
Interviews
Diaries
Oral History
Maps
Facsimiles
Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Speeches
Manuscripts
Recollections
Pamphlets
Reminiscences
Letters
memoir
Journal

Example results: