Seminar in Historical Methodology Research Guide

Background Research & Literature Review

Focus your topic with the help of encyclopedias

• Encyclopedias for history students
• More encyclopedias for history students
• Biographical dictionaries
• Reference Universe
  Search print as well as online encyclopedias simultaneously

Examples:
Maud Gonne (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
The development of gender history (Encyclopedia of European Social History)

Review the literature

• Suggested reading lists found through encyclopedia articles
• Library's catalog
• WorldCat
• Dissertations
• Journal indexes/databases

Start thinking about possible primary sources

• Autobiography?
• Correspondence?
• Published diaries?
• Contemporary news coverage?
• ...

Primary Sources

Rearch guide for primary sources

Examples:

Maud Gonne's correspondence
Maud Gonne's autobiography
Maud Gonne's political writings
The United Irishwomen: their place work and ideal
(Dublin, 1911. Gerritsen collection)
...

Secondary Sources

• Library's catalog
• WorldCat
• Scholarly journals
  History journal indexes
  Consider other subject specific journal indexes when appropriate.
• Dissertations

Citing Your Sources

• Research and Documentation Online.
  Guide to the major documentation styles
• The Chicago Manual of Style
  Available online and in print.
  Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  Information desk Z253.U69 2003
• RefWorks
  Never type a bibliography again! RefWorks will help you easily gather, manage, and store bibliographic citations for all types of information, as well as generate footnotes and bibliographies.

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