Welcome
This guide is selective and intended as a point of departure for your research in E-HIST 1636: Introduction to Harvard History.
For general historical sources see Library Research Guide for History.
Please feel free to email us with questions. We can make an appointment for you to meet with us over Zoom, and we can talk at length about your project:
- Anna Assogba (assogba@fas.harvard.edu), Research Librarian and Library Liaison for Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, Lamont Library
- Fred Burchsted (burchst@fas.harvard.edu), Research Librarian and Liaison to the Department of History, Widener Library
- Mary Frances Angelini (angelini@fas.harvard.edu), Research Librarian for the Extension School
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