History Resource Guide: Welcome

Databases with articles on topics in history and sources of historical newspapers.

Selected books at Stafford Library on history and historians.

Selected e-books on history and historians and websites with historical e-books.

Websites with primary documents.

Digital Collections and streaming videos about history.

Primary sources explains what primary, secondary, and tertiary sources are and the subpage under it has links to primary sources at Stafford Library.

Reference articles about historians and historiography.

Information on creating a literature review, writing help, and copyright.

Use Credo Reference's brainstorming tool to find related terms and expand your search.

From Purdue Owl Online Writing Lab
Evaluating sources of information is an important step in any research activity. This section provides information on evaluating bibliographic citations, aspects of evaluation, reading evaluation, print vs. Internet sources, and evaluating Internet sources.

The acroynm CRAAP stands for Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose. You can use the CRAAP Test to help evaluate resources you find, including books, articles from newspapers, magazines, or journals, and websites.

Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students by Patrick Rael (Bowdoin College, 2004), is a straightforward university-level introduction to crafting history papers. The book familiarizes students with primary and secondary sources in history, offers an understanding of the formal argument in historical studies, outlines the rudiments of producing research papers, and assists students with the foundations of organizing the basic history research term paper.

Provides links to examples of using the Chicago style.

Provides information on searching and boolean operators.

The research process can be broken down into five broad steps. This will help you with your research.