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Secondary Historical Sources

A guide to finding secondary historical sources. Details on using JSTOR, OneSearch, Google Scholar and other search engines. How to order materials via interlibrary loan. How to determine if a journal is both peer-reviewed and well-regarded.

Where to find Secondary Sources

        
"Secondary sources are commentaries and writings on the past from a later date" -  
Lipartito, Kenneth. "Historical Sources and Data." Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods (2014): 284-304.            

         

 

          

  

                       

    

          

     

    

         

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