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HIST 490C: The American Revolution (Fall 2025)
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HIST 490C: The American Revolution (Fall 2025)
Introduction
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Reminder
Libraries Undergraduate Library Research Awards
In This session (9/17/25)
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Secondary Sources
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Peer Reviewed Articles
Scholarly Monographs
Historiographic Material
Historical Statistics
Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Reference
Indexes for Newspapers
Indexes to Primary Sources
Genealogy Reference Resources
Examples
Primary Sources
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Artwork or Photography
Broadsides
Census Reports
Correspondence
Government Materials
Maps
Memoirs and Autobiographies
Narratives of the enslave / formerly enslaved
Newspapers
Pamphlets or Tracts
Periodicals
Personal Papers
Published collections of letters
Published Diaries
Songs & Music
Travel Journals
Unpublished Diaries
Unpublished Letters
Examples
Using Microfilm
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Microfilm Indexes
WorldCat: Advanced Guide (Primary & Secondary)
Finding Archives
Archival Collections at the W&M Special Collections Research Center (SCRC)
Citation
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Zotero
Using Interlibrary Loan
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Wrap Up
Today we will
Quickly review finding secondary sources
Exhaustively review primary source options
Get you going on finding material for your research paper
no more bullet points, that's already a lot to cover, Rick.
Working with primary sources
The Library of The College of William and Mary in Virginia, 1693-
Currently working on a revised edition
FHC book wishlist
List of books submitted to Rev. Gwatkin ~1772 that students in the Flat Hat Club wanted for the library.
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