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HIST 301: The Historian's Craft (Watkins, Spring 2025)
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HIST 301: The Historian's Craft (Watkins, Spring 2025)
Introduction
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What IS a History Librarian?
The Problem with Primary Sources
Quick Refresher
Reference (Tertiary) Sources
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Finding Reviews
Finding Encyclopedias
Historical Statistics
Secondary Sources
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What is Peer Review?
Types of Sources
Parts of an Article
What IS a "good" Secondary Source?
Boolean: And OR NOT & some others
Writing out your topic in Boolean (Important!)
Finding Articles
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IMPORTANT NOTE FOR SPRING 2025
How to order articles we don't own?
Finding Books
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Primary Sources
Worldcat: Accessing books we don't own
Finding Books via Reviews
Finding Historiographic Essays
Annotated Bibliographies
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Analyzing, Summarizing, and Critiquing an Article
Analyzing, Summarizing, and Critiquing a Book
Primary Source Databases
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Select Databases by Type
Think about word choice
Finding Specific Types of Primary Sources
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Primary Source: Published Diary
Primary Source: Memoir
Primary Source: Unpublished Diary
Primary Source: Published Letters
Primary Source: Unpublished Letters
Primary Sources: Broadside
Primary Source: Legislation
Primary Sources: Images
Primary Sources: Songs
Searching
Citation
Using Microfilm
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