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Historical Methods- Prof. Manning

Finding Keywords

Take the time to think about your topic and find resources to help you better define it.  Searching for "the Civil War" is too broad, but it can be your starting point to finding a specific person, battle, or group of people you want to learn more about.  When you do this background information searching it will be easier to create your research questions.

Timelines

Use a timeline to get a perspective on your topic:

Reference Sources

You can use on of the library's databases of Reference Sources to find some helpful background information for your general topic: