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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: What It Means to Be a Historian | |
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| Historians and the Research Process: Getting Started | |
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| How Scholarly Information Is Communicated | |
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| What Historians Do and How They Do It | |
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| Practicing History in the Electronic Age: Tips for the Information-Literate Historian | |
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| Beginning Your Research | |
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| Where Do Viable and Interesting Topics Come From? | |
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| Developing a Question and Formulating an Argument | |
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| Preliminary Organization: The Blueprint | |
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| Taking Notes | |
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| Format for Documenting Sources | |
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| The Changing Nature of Historical Research and What Remains the Same | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Reference Resources | |
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| What Are Reference Resources and When Are They Useful? | |
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| How to Find Reference Resources | |
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| Types of Reference Resources | |
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| Encyclopedias | |
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| Bibliographies | |
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| Multivolume General Histories | |
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| Biographical Resources | |
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| Chronologies | |
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| Dictionaries, Etymologies, and Word Origins | |
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| Statistical Resources | |
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| Book Reviews | |
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| Directories | |
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| Using the Internet as a Reference Resource | |
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| Case Study: Using Reference Resources to Understand Herodotus | |
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| Finding Monographs and Using Catalogs | |
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| What Is a Book?: The Changing Nature of Monographs | |
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| When Are Books the Right Choice for Information? | |
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| How to Use a Book Artfully | |
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| Finding Monographs and Using Catalogs | |
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| Keyword vs. Subject Searching | |
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| Keyword Searching | |
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| Subject Searching | |
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| How to Read an Online Catalog Record | |
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| Finding Monographs and Using Catalogs Outside of Your School | |
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| Sources for Catalogs | |
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| Where Else Can I Find Monographs? | |
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| Case Study: Finding and Using Monographs: The Spread of Islam in Western Africa | |
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| Finding Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers: Using Indexes | |
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| Using a Journal Article Artfully | |
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| What Are Periodicals (or Journals or Magazines)? | |
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| Journals vs. Magazines | |
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| Commentary Periodicals | |
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| The Role of Newspapers in Secondary Historical Research | |
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| How to Find Articles: Designing a Search and Using an Index | |
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| Using an Online Database: Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life | |
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| Entering a Keyword Search in Historical Abstracts | |
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| What You Will Get: Looking at Your Results | |
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| Other Ways to Use an Online Index | |
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| Selecting Other Indexes | |
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| E-Journals and Electronic Collections of Journals | |
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| Case Study: Searching for Periodical Articles: Canton Trade System | |
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| Selected Historical Indexes | |
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| Selected Periodical Indexes of Use to Historians | |
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| Evaluating Your Sources | |
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| Why Evaluate Your Sources? | |
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| Basic Evaluation Criteria | |
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| Perspective and Bias: Historians and Interpretation | |
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| Scholarship or Propaganda? | |
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| Case Study: Evaluating Sources: Holocaust Historians | |
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| The Thrill of Discovery: Primary Sources | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Nature and Categories of Primary Sources | |
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| Planning Your Project with Primary Sources | |
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| Locating Primary Sources | |
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| Published Sources for Mass Consumption | |
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| Books as Primary Sources | |
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| Magazines and Journals as Primary Sources | |
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| Newspapers as Primary Sources | |
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| How to Read a Bibliographic Entry in a Printed Newspaper Index | |
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| Unpublished Sources and Manuscripts | |
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| Catalogs, Bibliographies, Directories, and Indexes for Manuscripts | |
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| Directories to Archive Repositories | |
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| Documents from Governments and Other Official Bodies | |
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| Indexes and Bibliographies of Government Documents | |
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| Directories/Bibliographies for Governments/Guides to Government Publications | |
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| Public Records and Genealogical Sources | |
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| Guides to Public Records | |
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| Business Records | |
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| Directories | |
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| Oral History | |
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| Guides to Oral History Repositories | |
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| Media and Audiovisual | |
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| History before 1400: Ancient and Medieval Cultures and Those with Substantial Oral and Material Culture Traditions | |
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| Ancient History | |
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| Medieval European History | |
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| Using Bibliographies to Locate Primary Sources | |
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| Bibliographies Containing References to Primary Sources | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Case Study: Finding Primary Sources: Tobacco through the Ages | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Bibliography of Advanced Indexes to Published Primary Source | |
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| History and the Internet | |
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| The Internet and Research | |
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| When Is the Internet Appropriate for Historical Research? | |
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| Using the Internet: The Basics | |
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| How Do I Access Websites on the Internet? | |
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| Search Directories | |
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| Search Engines | |
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| Meta-Search Engines | |
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| What Am I Missing? The Deep Web or Invisible Web | |
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| Special Search Techniques: Finding Primary Sources on the Internet | |
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| Searching for Primary Sources | |
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| Historians Communicating: Using H-Net for Information | |
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| Evaluation of Websites | |
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| General Websites | |
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| Evaluating Sites Concerned with Primary Sources | |
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| Case Study: Using the Internet: Japanese Americans and Internment Camps | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Maps: From Simple to Geographic Information Systems | |
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| Maps as Representations of Our World | |
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| A Short History of Maps and Cartography | |
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| Maps for Navigation and Commercial Use | |
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| Maps as Political Tools | |
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| Maps as Propaganda | |
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| Maps Marking Territory | |
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| Maps in War | |
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| Components of Modern Maps | |
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| Finding Maps | |
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| Map Resources | |
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| Gazetteers | |
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| How to Read a Map | |
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| Questions to Ask When Reading a Map | |
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| Planning Your Own Map: Simple to Complex | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Beyond the Written Word: Finding, Evaluating, and Using Images, Motion Pictures, and Audio | |
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| The Role of Media in Historical Research: Media as Historical Evidence | |
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| Images Throughout History | |
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| Photography: Real Life Captured? | |
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| Art as Visual Media: Painting and Drawing | |
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| Motion Pictures and Television | |
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| Searching for Visual Media | |
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| Collections of Historic Images | |
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| Search Engines and Meta-Search Engines for Images and Indexes to Image Collections | |
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| Images on the Internet: Some Cautions | |
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| Scanning and Downloading Still Images | |
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| Common Image Files | |
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| Downloading Images | |
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| Scanning Images | |
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| Image Types | |
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| Organizing Still Images on Your Website | |
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| Digital Video and Audio Files | |
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| Digital Video: Using Moving Images | |
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| Searching on the Web | |
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| Audio, Music, and Speech Resources | |
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| Questions to Ask About Speeches | |
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| Searching for Audio Materials | |
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| Copyright | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Presenting Your Research: Traditional Research Paper, PowerPoint, or Website? | |
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| Creating a Research Paper | |
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| Writing Style | |
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| Oral Presentations and PowerPoint | |
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| Websites for Historical Research | |
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| Historical and Scholarly Websites: A Developing Frontier | |
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| Website Design: How to Begin | |
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| Preplanning: The Major Considerations | |
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| Navigation | |
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| What Every Good Website Must Have | |
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| Writing Text for the Web | |
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| Common Mistakes to Avoid on Websites | |
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| Case Study: A Student-Constructed Website: Freedmen's Bureau | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Index | |