Hello, this is the library research guide for HIST 601 with Professor Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, with a focus on your historiographical essay and tips on finding scholarly articles and books.
Borrow books and get articles from other libraries with interlibrary loan.
We have a guide to citing your sources (remember to use Chicago style).
Need help? Feel free to contact Laurel Bliss, lbliss@sdsu.edu.
As stated in the syllabus for this class, "a good historiographical essay should introduce and evaluate the key writings and issues on a particular topic and show how scholarly views of that topic have changed over the past several decades." Remember that historiography essays typically use secondary sources as a basis for analysis. This is very different from a direct investigation of historical events or people, which uses primary documents.
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