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U.S. History Research

U.S. History Resources in the UML Library

americans through history

This guide is designed to help you fulfill assignments in your history courses. The guide contains: 

✦ links to UML library databases and tutorials on how to navigate them
✦ selected e-books on related topics with a tutorial on how to search for library books
✦ how to make correct citations for you paper
✦ how to register for and use Interlibrary Loan
✦ what primary sources are, how to find them, and links to primary source sites

Before you start, watch the short video below which describes how research is like a conversation.

If you cannot access the above video, you can watch it here

Created by the UW-Madison Libraries 
Script adapted from Jane Hammons’ “Scholarship as Conversation” (Steely Library NKU)