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Drawn from decades of experience, this is a concise and highly practical guide to writing history. Aimed at all kinds of people who write history academic historians, public historians, professional historians, family historians and students of all levels the book includes a wide range of examples from many genres and styles.
The popular Turabian manual provides assistance to writers in the fundamentals: writers need to have a strong research question, construct an evidence-based argument, cite their sources, and structure their work in a logical way.
Find citations to articles, essays, conference proceedings, and festschriften about all aspects of medieval life (300-1500), covering Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Find references to journal articles, book reviews and some dissertations about the history of all parts of the world from 1450 on, EXCLUDING Canada and the United States. In the search options, select "Peer Reviewed" and enter "Historical Period" (e.g., Start Year: 1450 To End Year: 1600).
A useful multidisciplinary database. Be sure to carefully consider your search terms to ensure that you retrieve content related to history/historiography.
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
JSTOR is a database containing the full text of over 500 scholarly journals. You can search the full range of journals, or a specific thematic subset in the "Advanced Search" such as History, History of Science and Technology, Religion, and more.
Resource from Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) with explanations of how to write Chicago-style citations. Select the source type (books, periodicals, web sources) on the left-hand side.
Zotero is a free, open-source citation management system that will make it easier for you to write and cite throughout your undergraduate education and beyond! Get started early for the most benefits.