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Hist 2800: Historians Craft

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SLUth - Search Plus

SLUth has a new look! A multi-disciplinary discovery tool that searches over 130 databases, the SLU Library Catalog, SLU Digital Collections, and journal content from multiple publishers. Find articles, books, videos, and more.

JSTOR

A digital library of journals, academic ebooks, images, and primary sources. Full runs of more than 2,800 top scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. 158,000+ perpetual access ebooks from 340+ academic publishers alongside scholarly journals, special collections, images, and multimedia on JSTOR.

Project MUSE

Full-text access to hundreds of scholarly journals and open access ebooks from over 200 university and not-for-profit presses primarily in humanities and social sciences with some science, technology, and math.

Historical Abstracts

1450-present. Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada.

Iter Bibliography (EBSCO)

400-1700. Indexes secondary source articles about the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Types of Sources

Primary sources = original sources of information about a topic, created by the person in question or at the time being studied
Secondary sources = analyze and interpret primary sources (while engaging with other relevant secondary sources)
Tertiary sources = incorporates many different secondary sources into a summary of a specific subject
      - Indexes, dictionaries etc. (reference materials) that help guide us to primary and secondary sources

*An item may be both a primary and secondary source!*

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