Researching History Online

Description

There are millions of sources online. How should students get started? What are they looking for and how will they know what they're looking at?

Join historian, special collections librarian, and educator Matt Reeves for a live overview of researching materials online. This soup-to-nuts overview starts with formatting a research question and covers identifying and assessing primary and secondary sources online. By combining lecturettes with small group working sessions, students will learn hands-on where to find materials and how to evaluate those materials.

This session is particularly useful for student groups starting research projects and can be tailored to specific project and source materials. Some typically useful primary source collections are the Internet Archive, the Chronicling America Project at the Library of Congress, and the Missouri Valley Room's own KCHistory.org.

Library staff can facilitate using Zoom, or participate through your preferred learning platform.