This guide is designed to help researchers enrolled in Dr. Smart's section of History 200 locate relevant historical documents, books, and scholarly journal articles. Many of the electronic resources included here are licensed for the use of WVU students and faculty. Access from off-campus locations requires your WVU username and password.
The research project requires you to locate a variety of both primary and secondary sources. These are defined as:
Secondary Sources - "texts - such as books, articles, or documentary films - that are written or created by people who were not eyewitnesses to the events or period in question; instead, the authors of secondary sources synthesize, analyze, and interpret primary sources..."(Rampolla, 2012).
Primary Sources - "are materials produced by people or groups directly involved in the event or topic under consideration, either as participants or as witnesses...Some primary sources are written documents, such as letters; diaries; newspapers and magazine articles; speeches; autobiographies; treatises; census data; and marriage, birth, and death registers" (Rampolla, 2012).
