This guide is designed to help you get started with your library research.

Click on any of the tabs above to find information about how to locate History books, journal articles, websites and more.

What are Secondary Sources?  Journal articles & chapters etc... written about a work of literature and offering a critical view of that work are called literary criticism.

What are Primary Sources?  Original works of literature and uninterpreted information about an event or period of time.

Beware Wikipedia! It can't be cited in academic essays (avoid sites where authors aren't accountable for contributions). 

Evaluate! Evaluate! Evaluate!
Don't believe everything you read.

Avoid Plaigiarism
That's using an author's work or ideas without referencing it (yes, even if it's not directly quoted & you've changed the words)

'New Titles Received' Lists   

Black conservative intellectuals in modern America - Michael L. Ondaatje

ISBN: 0812242068

Delves deeply into the historical archive to chronicle the origins of black conservatism in the US from the early 1980s to the present. Focusing on 3 significant policy issues - affirmative action, welfare & education - Ondaatje critically engages with the ideas of 9 of the most influential black conservatives.

The devil in the holy water or the art of slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon - Robert Darnton

ISBN: 0812241835

"In political slander everything is of the moment, & only someone as immersed as Darnton is in the particularities of 18th-century publishing, politics & cultural life could possibly do justice to its noisome unruliness... The reader gets a taste of the thrill of the chase not just from the text but also from a number of telling illustrations taken from the illicit publications themselves..."

Medieval Europe : a short history - Judith M. Bennett

ISBN: 0073385506

Tells how the peoples of medieval Europe built, understood & changed their world. Never losing sight of the neighboring civilizations of Byzantium & Islam, it has its feet firmly planted in the medieval West, from whence it gives ample consideration to such subjects as women's lives, Jewish communities, ordinary people & the experiences of Europeans in the often-neglected centuries of the Later Middle Ages.

The road to Botany Bay : an exploration of landscape and history - Paul Carter

ISBN: 081666997X

Through a far-reaching exploration of Australia’s mapping, narrative description, early urbanism, and bush mythology, Paul Carter exposes the mythopoetic mechanisms of empire. A powerfully written account of the ways in which language, history, and geography influenced the territorial theater of nineteenth-century imperialism, the book is also a call to think, write, and live differently.

From slavery to freedom: a history of African Americans - Franklin & Higginbotham

ISBN: 0072963786

Charts the journey of African Americans from their origins in Africa, through slavery in the Western Hemisphere, struggles for freedom in the West Indies, Latin America & the US, various migrations, and the continuing quest for racial equality.

1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War & the Shaping of History - Ashley Ekins (ed)

ISBN: 1458752305

The Australian War Memorial's Ashley Ekins presents a compelling account of the world's first 'great war' and its legacy. The Great War of 1914 - 1918 casts a long shadow. It is over 90 years since the last shots were fired, ending a global conflict that consumed the lives and hopes of so many of its generation.

Revolution & its past: identities & change in modern Chinese history - R. Keith Schoppa

ISBN: 0205726917

Uses the theme of identities to probe the vast changes that have swept over China from late imperial times to the early 21st century. Explores the range of identities that China has chosen over time & those that outsiders have attributed to China & its people, showing how, as China rapidly modernizes, the issue of Chinese identity in the modern world looms large.

 

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