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HIST 301: Historian's Craft (Homza, Spring 2025)

Decoding Institutional Histories

Questions

  • How useful is this as a primary sources?
  • what questions does it raise?
  • Who wrote this and why?
  • What are the biases and uses of the source?

HINT!

If you're looking for primary sources about a specific institution, especially sources from before the 1940s, search for the institution as Author in GoogleBook, HathiTrust, and Internet Archive. Many of their materials will be digitized and keyword searchable.