Carleton College: History: History Study Guides

History Study Guides

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Original guides and modifications of guides contributed by current and past History Department faculty members Kirk Jeffrey, Diethelm Prowe, Rachel Seidman, Harry Williams, Eleanor Zelliot, and others. If you have written or modified anything included in this project, please tell me so I can acknowledge your good help. Thanks, John Heydinger, '08, for suggesting that we include the End Note download site.

The Chicago Manual of Style can be opened on-line through the Gould Library at https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/find/search/dbs/ and enter in find line: Chicago Manual of Style.

I. How to Read History
A. Some Suggestions on Critically Evaluating Your Reading in History
B. On Reading Well to Discuss Well

II. How to Analyze a Primary Source

III. How to Write a History Research Paper
1. How do I pick a topic?
2. But I can't find any material...
3. Help! How do I put this together?
A. Research Steps
B. Writing Steps
C. How to Write an Introduction and a Conclusion, link to Denise Conover, University of Utah, A Guide to Writing History, based on "A guide to Writing in History and Classics," by M. Damen. Tips for writing introductions and conclusions.

IV. The Mechanics of Citation
A. Citing sources in footnotes
B. Quotations
C. Bibliographical entries
D. Interviews
E. How to Cite Internet Sources

F. Download End Note program, Gould Library

G. The Chicago Manual of Style can be opened on-line through the Gould Library at https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/find/search/dbs/ and enter in find line: Chicago Manual of Style.

V. How to Give a Twenty-Minute Oral Presentation

VI. How to Lead a Class Discussion

VII. Book Reviews
A. How to Write a Critical Book Review
B. How to Write a Book Review

VIII. How to Read Fiction for History

IX. How to Take Good Notes

X. American Historical Association (AHA) Ethical Practices in the History Profession

XI. Plagiarism, American Historical Association (AHA), by Michael Rawson, University of Wisconsin at Madison

XII. How to Read a Book, David Yamrane, Wake-Forest University, recommended by Paul Petzschmann

XIII. How to Write a Comparative Analysis, Kerry Walk, Harvard University

NEW, added 01/03/2013:
XIV. Field-Specific Study Guides by Heather Tompkins, Librarian, History Dept Library Resources Adviser & Liaison
- African American Studies
- African Studies
- Asian History
- European History
- Latin American History
- Medieval & Renaissance Studies (MARS)
- U.S. History