HIST 597: Modern Europe Seminar: The Invention of the Past and the Birth of Modern Europe

Reference Sources

Library Catalogue

Depending on your research question/topic, there may be print books, eBooks, eJournals, or other digitized materials that can serve as useful primary sources. Using the Library Catalogue, try:

• Searching for author names: au:Elgin, Thomas Bruce
• Search for exact titles of items using exact phrase searching: ti:"Memorandum on the subject of the Earl of Elgin's pursuits in Greece"
• Keyword search and use the filter on the lefthand side to limit by date
  • Be cautious with this trick! This may exclude reprinted items that could be useful primary sources.
• Use the eJournals A-Z list to search for older journals by title (tip: skip an initial "the")
• Search using subject headings such as
  • Su: History, Ancient Historiography
  • Su: Archaeology Periodicals

Newspapers & Periodicals

Thematic Digital Collections

Find books

Find books by searching the Library Catalogue by keyword or by subject heading. Try subject heading searches such as:

• su: Archaeology History 20th Century
  • Tip: replace 20th Century with whatever century you are interested in (17th Century, 18th Century, etc.); replace Archaeology with another discipline
• su: National Museums Europe History
• su: archaeology Germany history
• su: civilization Greek influences
  • Tip: try adding the name of a country (e.g., Germany, France, India) to this search.

Tip: also try searching for books assigned in class and seeing what subject headings have been applied to those books.

Find peer-reviewed articles

History as a discipline uses the Chicago Manual of Style (18th edition) for citations, and usually the Notes-Bibliography form. This requires creating properly formatted footnotes footnotes and a Bibliography for your assignments. Resources to understand the Chicago style of citations are included below.

Note: Chicago Manual of Style updated to the 18th edition in September 2024.

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