On sabbatical until January 2025. For research help LIVE CHAT from the library homepage or call/email/text the Library.
Sample chat questions:
Source #1) Visual primary sources created at the time of the thing you are studying include engravings, maps, popular or fine art pieces, an advertisement or cartoon, etc.
Source #2) Written primary sources created at the time of the thing you are studying include newspaper articles, letters, diaries, travel accounts, treaties, speech transcriptions, etc.
Background information & initial research
To get a working knowledge about your topic (events, key people, places, etc.) your instructor said Wikipedia and Google Scholar may be helpful. I will add to that our best background information database, Gale eBooks.
Source #3) Scholarly Secondary sources discussing the thing you are researching should come from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals or book chapters from scholarly books/anthologies. Your instructor asks for sources that are at most 15-20 years old, if possible.
GOOGLE SCHOLAR (NOT FOR THIS CLASS, JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS)
Source #4) Contemporary popular culture sources from the relative present include memes, advertisements or commercials, film or TV clips (5 minutes or less), songs, fashion collections or editorial spreads, etc.