Research Manuals
Essaying the Past: how to read, write, and think about history by ISBN: 9781119111948Publication Date: 2016-10-06Part research manual, part study guide, and part introduction to the study of history, Essaying the Past guides the reader through the nuts and bolts of producing good historical prose, offering key strategies and useful tips.
The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature by ISBN: 9780195057270Publication Date: 1995-03-30Hundreds of historians from around the world have selected and provided commentary on the best and most useful works in their fields--almost 27,000 annotated citations--to provide unprecedented bibliographic guidance of extraordinary breadth, from prehistory to the twentieth century.Presented in an accessible format,
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Welcome to the History Guide! Please feel free to email, or make an appointment with me via the SCHEDULE APPOINTMENT box on the left.
This guide is intended to get you started with resources for any type of research project that may relate to History. While it relies heavily on more traditional scholarly and password protected material only available to the Kenyon community, I am working to add material of hidden and oppressed voices in order to help researchers fill out the gaps in our understanding of research, scholarship, and ourselves. Suggestions are encouraged and welcome!
Helpful Tutorials
Scroll through the videos to find useful tutorials on Searching Consort, Using Google Scholar, Finding the Full Text of an Article, and more!
Reference sources can help you to begin your research and find and nail down definitions and foundational information. Encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries can help learn more about a topic or a person, and place them in wider historical and cultural contexts. Browse online reference material below after looking over the brief descriptions. You can also search for online sources using the Advanced Search screen in CONSORT, by limiting the location to KEN Reference.
- Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
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Biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
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Full text general subject database of reference titles
- Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
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Collection of encyclopedias, handbooks, and other reference sources
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
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Oxford’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedia spanning 25 different subject areas.
- HeinOnline: Government, Politics & Law This link opens in a new window
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Full text documents on legal history, case law, world trials, U.S. government, congressional reports, and other government documents.
- OhioLINK Electronic Book Center This link opens in a new window
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Thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences.
- Oxford Very Short Introductions This link opens in a new window
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Concise and original introductions to a diverse range of subjects written by experts in the fields.
