Research Approaches
§ Are there books or articles about your person?
§ Are they mentioned in other people’s books & articles? (HathiTrust; newspapers & periodicals/professional literature)
- Guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes
- Library Research Guide for History: General and Popular Periodicals
- Library Research Guide for History: Specialized Periodicals
§ Have they written books or articles? (HOLLIS & professional literature)
- Library Research Guide for History: General and Popular Periodicals
- Library Research Guide for History: Specialized Periodicals
§ Do they have available personal papers? Are they in other people's personal papers? Has any of it been digitized or published? Were they associated with particular organization or topics?
- Library Research Guide for Finding Manuscripts and Archival Collections -- Instructions for Interlibrary Loan scanning.
- HOLLIS example for published sources
- HOLLIS Catalog&Articles search with Resource Type: Archives/Manuscripts: (External Providers)
§ Are there oral histories or interviews by or about your person?
§ Was your person affiliated with any disciplines, organizations or social movements? (digital collections; google advanced search)
- See list of topical guides on the Library Research Guide for History
- Finding Primary Sources Online
- Google Advanced Search. Search your terms with any of these words: "digital library" "digital collection" "digital archive" "primary sources" "online collection"
- Social Movements, Activism, Radicalism, Protest
§ Are there images of your person?
§ Do they appear in the census or other official records/vital records? (Ancestry.com)