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Research Skills

A+ Research and Writing for High School and College Students --a step-by-step guide by Kathryn Schwartz, available via the Internet Public Library.

  • Beginning Research at National Archives and Records Administration Sites

  • Evaluation of Information Sources --a World-Wide Web Virtual Library guide to evaluating Internet sites

  • Helping Your Child Learn History --from the U.S. Department of Education

  • History Firsthand: Primary Source Research in Elementary School

  • Learning Page of the Library of Congress --how to use primary sources.  See particularly the following pages:

  • Primary Sources Research Colloquium --from Yale University; includes information on what is a primary source and the formats of primary sources as well as a guide to bibliographical tools for research in history

  • Research Roadmap

  • Studying and Teaching History --from Tennessee Technological University

  • You Be the Historian  --from the National Museum of American History

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