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HIST 283: Early Modern African History (Fall 2025)
Introduction
Session Goals (9/15/25)
Activity: Learning through [my] Mistakes
Reminder of Library Services
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How do we have so many Resources?
Libraries Undergraduate Library Research Awards
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Why Do We Need So Many Databases?
Reminder: Primary and Secondary Sources
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Finding Books (Secondary Sources)
Finding Articles
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Primary Sources
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Wrap Up
Some collections of scanned material online
16th-Early 20th Century Maps of Africa (Northwestern)
African Online Digital Library (MSU)
Afriterra
Digitizing Timbuktu (Brown)
Gallica: Voyages en Afrique
Herskovits Library of African Studies (Northwestern)
History: Africa: Primary Sources (Univ. of Washington)
Internet African History Sourcebook (Fordham)Internet African History Sourcebook (Fordham)
Islamic Heritage Project (Harvard)
South African History Online (SAHO)
World Digital Library (LOC)
Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu
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