Preface | |
Introduction | |
What it Means to Be a Historian | |
Historians and the Research Process: Getting Started | |
How Scholarly Information Is Communicated | |
What Historians Do and How They Do It | |
Practicing History in the Electronic Age: Tips for the Information-Literate Historian | |
Beginning Your Research | |
Where Do Viable and Interesting Topics Come From? | |
Developing a Question and Formulating an Argument | |
The Blueprint: Concept Maps, Storyboarding, and Outlines | |
Taking Notes | |
Creating Bibliographies and Documenting Sources | |
The Changing Nature of Historical Research and What Remains the Same | |
For Further Reading | |
Reference Resources | |
What Are Reference Resources and When Are They Useful? | |
How to Find Reference Resources | |
Types of Reference Resources | |
Encyclopedias | |
Bibliographies | |
Multivolume General Histories | |
Bibliographical Resources | |
Chronologies | |
Dictionaries, Etymologies, and Word Origins | |
Book Reviews | |
Directories | |
Using the Internet as a Reference Resource | |
Case Study: Using Reference Resources to Understand Herodotus | |
Finding Monographs and Using Catalogs | |
What Is a Book?: The Changing Nature of Monographs | |
When Are Books the Right Choice for Information | |
How to Use a Book Artfully | |
Finding Monographs and Using Catalogs | |
Navigating a Library Portal/Finding the Catalog | |
Strategic Searching: Keyword vs. Subject Searching | |
Keyword Searching | |
Subject Searching | |
Alternative Searching: Faceted Catalogs and Limiting | |
How to Read an Online Catalog Record | |
Finding Monographs and Using Catalogs Outside of Your School | |
Sources for Catalogs | |
Where Else Can I Find Monographs? | |
Case Study: Finding and Using Monographs: The Spread of Islam in Western Africa | |
Finding Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers: Using Indexes | |
How to Read a Journal Article | |
What are Periodicals (or Journals or Magazines)?Journals vs. Magazines | |
Commentary Periodicals | |
The Role of Newspapers in Secondary Historical Research | |
How to Find Articles: Designing a Search and Using and Index | |
Using an Online Database: Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life | |
Entering a Keyword Search in Historical Abstracts | |
What You Will Get: Looking at Your Results | |
Other Ways to Use an Online Index | |
Selecting Other Indexes | |
E-Journals and Electronic Collections of Journals | |
Case Study: Searching for Periodical Articles: Canton Trade System | |
Selected Historical Indexes | |
Selected Periodical Indexes of Use to Historians | |
Evaluating Your Sources | |
Why Evaluate Your Sources? | |
Basic Evaluation Criteria | |
How to Read and Evaluate a Book/Mongraphy or Journal | |
Perspective and Bias: Historians and Interpretation | |
Scholarship or Propaganda? | |
Case Study: Evaluating Sources: Holocaust Historians | |
The Thrill of Discovery: Primary Sources | |
Definitions | |
Nature and Categories of Primary Sources | |
Planning Your Project with Primary Sources | |
Locating Primary Sources | |
Digitizing and Electronic Access to Primary Sources | |
Published Sources for Mass Consumption | |
Books as Primary Sources | |
Magazines and Journals as Primary Sources | |
Newspapers as Primary Sources | |
How to Read Bibliographic Entry in a Printed Newspaper Index | |
Unpublished Sources and Manuscripts | |
Catalogs, Bibliographies, Directories, and Indexes for Manuscripts | |
Directories to Archive Repositories | |
Documents from Governments and Other Official Bodies | |
Indexes and Bibliographies of Government Documents | |
Directories/Bibliographies for Government/Guides to Government Publications | |
Genealogy and Public Records | |
Guides for Genealogy and Public Records | |
Business Records | |
Directories | |
Oral History | |
Guide to Oral History Repositories | |
Material Culture: Buildings, Artifacts, and Objects | |
History before 1400: Ancient and Medieval Cultures and Those with Substantial Oral and Material Culture Traditions | |
Ancient History | |
Medieval European History | |
Using Bibliographies to Locate Primary Sources | |
Bibliographies Containing References to Primary Sources | |
Evaluation | |
Case Study: Finding Primary Sources: Tobacco through the Ages | |
For Further Reading | |
Bibliography of Advances Indexes to Published Primary Sources | |
History and the Internet | |
The Internet and Research | |
When Is the Internet Appropriate for Historical Research? | |
Using the Internet: The Basics | |
How Do I Access Websites on the Internet? | |
Search Directories | |
Search Engines | |
Meta-Search Engines | |
What Am I Missing? The Deep Web or Invisible Web | |
Special Search Techniques: Finding Primary Sources on the Internet | |
Searching for Primary Sources | |
Historians Communicating: Using H-Net for Information | |
Evaluation of Websites | |
General Websites | |
Evaluating Sites Concerned with Primary Sources | |
Case Study: Using the Internet: Japanese Americas and Internment Camps | |
For Further Reading | |
Maps: From Simple to Geographic Information Systems | |
Maps as Representations of Our World | |
A Short History of Maps and Cartography | |
Maps for Navigation and Commercial Use | |
Maps as Political Tools | |
Maps as Propaganda | |
Maps Marking Territory | |
Maps in War | |
Components of Modern Maps | |
Finding Maps | |
Categories of Historical Maps | |
Map Resources | |
Gazetteers | |
How to Read a Map | |
Questions to Ask When Reading a Map | |
Planning Your Own Map: Simple to Complex | |
For Further Reading | |
Beyond the Written Word: Finding, Evaluation, and Using Images, Motion Pictures, and Audio | |
The Role of Media in Historical Research: Medial as Historical Evidence | |
Images Throughout History | |
Photography: Real Life Captured? | |
Art as Visual Media: Painting and Drawing | |
Moving Images: Newsreels. Documentaries, Motion Pictures, and Television Programs | |
Searching for Visual Media | |
Collections of Historical Images | |
Search Engines and Meta-Search Engines for Images and Indexes to Image Collections | |
Images on the Internet: Some Cautions | |
Scanning and Downloading Still Images | |
Common Image Files | |
Downloading Images | |
Scanning Images | |
Digital Video and Audio Files | |
Digital Video: Using Moving Images | |
Searching on the Web | |
Audio, Music, and Speech Resources | |
Searching for Audio Materials | |
Copyright | |
For Further Reading | |
Statistics: Quantifying History | |
A Society of Statistics | |
A Short History of the Evolution of Statistical Collection and Analysis: What Can You Expect to Find? | |
Using Statistics: The Nature of Data, Simple to Complex | |
Categorizing Statistics: How They Are Collected and Organized | |
Economic Statistics | |
Social Statistics | |
Public Opinion and Consumer Preferences | |
Gleaning Statustics from Primary Sources | |
Finding Statistics | |
How to Think About the Sources | |
Search Strategies | |
Evaluating Statistics: Common Problems with Data Collection and Results | |
Data Problems: Signs that Something is Wrong | |
Data Sets: Doing Your Own Thing | |
Selected Resources | |
For Further Reading | |
Case Study: Contextualizing Statistics | |
Presenting Your Research: Traditional Research Paper, Power | |
Point, or Website? | |
Creating a Research Paper | |
Writing Style | |
Formulating an Argument | |
Paper Construction | |
Ebb and Flow of Paragraphs | |
Oral, Slide, and Poster Presentation | |
Creating a Poster | |
Public Presenting | |
Websites for Historical Research | |
Historical and Scholarly Websites: Developing Frontier | |
Website Design: How to Begin | |
Preplanning: The Major Considerations | |
Navigation | |
What Every Good Website Must Have | |
Writing Ext for the Web | |
Common Mistakes to Avoid on Websites | |
Case Study: A Student Paper: "Americans and the Bomb" For Further Reading | |
Index | |
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