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Hist 100: Children’s History and the History of Children (Fall 2024)
What IS a "good" Secondary Source? [Activity]
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Hist 100: Children’s History and the History of Children (Fall 2024)
Introduction
Children in the Archives
Overview of Library Services & Resources
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How do we have so many Resources?
Primary VS Secondary Sources
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Primary V. Secondary [Activity]
Reference Materials
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Finding Encyclopedias
Secondary Sources
What is Peer Review?
Types of Sources
What IS a "good" Secondary Source? [Activity]
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Articles
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How to order articles we don't own?
Books
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Worldcat: Accessing books we don't own
Primary Source Databases
Evaluating Sources
Citation
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Worksheet
Are they good sources?
Take notes on this Word document for exercise
What makes a source "good" anyway?
Consider:
Who wrote the source?
When? Is it outdated?
What is their methodology / sources?
Who is the audience?
Who is the publisher?
Is their argument convincing?
Is the article/book related to your paper?
Are these good Secondary Sources?
My topic is childhood in 18th century America.
Leavitt, Judith Walzer. Brought to Bed : Childbearing in America, 1750 to 1950. 1st ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Kiefer, Monica, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher. American Children Through Their Books, 1700-1835. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1948. doi:10.9783/9781512817331.
Berman, Cassandra N. 2018. “American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States by Nicholas L. Syrett (Review).” Journal of the Early Republic 38 (3): 578–80. doi:10.1353/jer.2018.0065.
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