These databases combine encyclopedia entries, published scholarship, and primary source documents for history teachers and students.
Planning your research
Advice on planning a research project and finding and using primary and secondary sources.
Good for: Learning about working with primary sources in history.
Contains: Essays, videos, how-to guides, and case studies.
Good for: Learning about historiography, historical theory, methods for analyzing primary sources, and schools of thought within the discipline of history.
Contains: Collections of essays and monographs.
The Princeton Guide to Historical Research
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Going to the Sources
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Literature Reviews
Essays by scholars in the field present overviews of the work that has been published on a topic.
Good for: Gaining an overview of how academics have approached a topic.
Contains: Essays describing an area of study and its key methods and sources.
Good for: Creating reading lists or consulting overviews of topics to identify significant scholarship.
Contains: Annotated bibliographies focused on areas of study within a discipline.
Booklists, bibliographies and summaries
These research guides from earlier eras are valuable to students writing historiographies. They are arranged by geographical region; editors list and summarize significant books of the era.
Book reviews
Book reviews can help you identify important works on a topic and identify contrasting approaches or different schools of thought.
