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HIST 283: Early Modern African History (Fall 2025)
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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
Highlighted Databases
Why Do We Need So Many Databases?
Reminder: Primary and Secondary Sources
Advanced Boolean: And OR NOT
Finding Books (Secondary Sources)
Finding Articles
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Primary Sources
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Wrap Up
Sample Article Searches
Historical Abstracts, limited to 1500-1800
Search already limited to articles about Africa 1500-1800. Replace "Atlantic Slave Trade" with your topic of interest.
Academic Search Complete, preset search
already set to peer reviewed articles. in place of the work "TOPIC" as your own topic or topics
Still picking a topic? Use these database to narrow down your focus
EBSCO preloaded with the search SU (west africa) AND portugal
go to "all filters" and "subjects" to see what topics other historians are studying within your original search
PRIMO preloaded search for africa* AND ivory AND history
As another example, look under subjects to see what subtopics are being discussed by scholars.
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