
Tutorial 1: Locate books using the Library Catalog
What
are secondary sources?
Journal
articles are the main way that historians launch brand
new interpretations or research findings. Articles are accepted for publication
in scholarly journals only after they have been favorably reviewed by other
scholars. This is why scholarly or academic journals are also called "peer-reviewed
journals".
Monographs
are books on fairly narrow or specialized history topics. They are usually the
result of extensive inquiry into original research materials and are the building
blocks that other historians use to write broader, more general histories.
General
histories are works of synthesis that bring together
current research for a given geographical region, time period, or subject. History
books that appeal to a mass audience, not just scholars, tend to be general
histories that have incorporated the research labors of many other historians.
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