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Library resources that support professor Jay Lockenour's course, Historiography & Research Methods
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Course Texts

The following texts have been or currently are required reading for this course. Check your syllabus to see which titles are indeed required reading for your iteration of History 4034/4934.

Click title to see bibliographic record for printed book in the Diamond catalog.

Click book jacket to view record on Amazon. Except where noted, these books are not available full-text online.

 
 

Welcome!

"Assessing primary sources is a key skill for historians. Students will be required to submit a 1000 word essay evaluating and comparing the utility and reliability of two primary sources relating to the Weimar Republic" (syllabus, p. 2). Click on the tabs above to find databases and other useful tools for locating primary (archival) and secondary sources housed at Temple University Libraries and at other libraries throughout the Delaware Valley.

The boxes on this page provide links to various military historiographies; books written to help students locate and evaluate primary sources; a video tutorial that explains how to use Temple's ILLiad system for borrowing materials from other libraries; and two databases, RefWorks and Reference Universe, that respectively help researchers easily manage their citations and find reliable background information about their topics.

Questions? Wish to schedule a research consultation? See my Contact Info in right-hand column or click on the Schedule a Consultation tab, above.

 

Historiography: Definition & Discussion

The term historiography defies simple definition, but at its core implies a concern for the examination of all aspects of historical scholarship, including especially the writing of history and the methods of historical research. It can also refer to a single scholarly work or body of historical literature, e.g. "the historiography of World War I". Find below links to discussions centered on military historiography.

  • The Great War and Its Historiography  
      
    This article focuses on the historiography of World War I. Source: Historian, 68(4), 713-721
  • Historiography  
      
    Lengthy review of the development of historical writing from earliest times to the present. Includes a discussion of major and minor historical traditions. Source: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • Historiography [of Early Modern Warfare]  
      
    Examines how historians' thinking about warfare in the Early Modern Period has evolved over the past fifty years. Source: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
  • Historiography [of World War II]  
      
    Source: Oxford Companion to World War II
  • The History of War  
      
    Very early (1919) historiography of World War I, written just after the signing of the Versailles Treaty. Source: The American Historical Review, 24(4), 637-640
  • History, Military  
      
    The uses to which historical writings about war and warfare have been put since 1945. Source: Reader's Companion to Military History
  • Quill and Cannon: Writing the Great War in Canada  
      
    Recounts the early Canadian historiography of World War I. Source: American Review of Canadian Studies, 35(3), 503-530
 

Research Manuals

Book-length guides to locating and evaluating primary sources. Click title to see full bibliographic record, including call #, in Diamond. Click book jacket to view record on Amazon. Except where noted, these titles are not available full-text online.

 

Using ILLiad - Video Tutorial


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RefWorks

Manage your citations with RefWorks, a tool that allows researchers to easily import, export, search, and create automatically formatted bibliographies online. Citations found via searches in library databases such as JSTOR can be imported directly into RefWorks. No manual typing required. Bibliographies generated within RefWorks can then be exported into Word using any of dozens of citation formats (Chicago, Turabian, etc.).

Don't forget to check your results against the examples derived from Chicago Style in the Undergraduate History Handbook.

 

Reference Universe

Reference Universe is a unique database that makes transparent both printed and online reference material that might otherwise remain hidden. It searches back-of-the-book indexes and article titles in thousands of encyclopedias and other reference works owned by Temple University Libraries.

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(Use the Reference Universe link instead of this search box if you are off-campus.)

 
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