History: Home

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What are the differences between primary and secondary sources?

How do I find books on my topic?

What are the differences between popular and scholarly sources?

How do articles become peer-reviewed?

How do I locate articles on my topic?

How do I use The New York Times - Historic database?

Are there tutorials available on searching databases?

How can I locate historic images?

I need to trace the meaning of a word through time - what/where is the OED?

The articles I'm interested in don't have a PDF; what now?

What are the differences between quoting and paraphrasing?

Are there resources available for learning how to cite my sources?

Using the Digital Dissertations & Theses Global Database

Using the Historic New York Times Database

Artstor

Does the Library Have This?

Interlibrary Loan

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