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HISTORY: Getting Started

What's in this Guide?

This guide will help you begin the research process in History by providing guidance in finding, evaluating, and using a variety of information sources available through Armacost Library collections and beyond.

Use the tabs above to learn more about:

  • Finding books
  • Finding articles (scholarly journal articles, and popular magazine & newspaper articles
  • Making use of information sources in your academic work
  • Tools for citing your sources properly
  • ALURA, an award for exceptional student research
  • Related guides in the right-hand column.
  • Need help now? Find your options in the right-hand column.

Stokes family, 1950. Oscar Stokes (far right) helped his father, David Stokes (seated), plant the first Washington navel orange trees on the grounds of the University of California, Riverside Citrus Experiment Station in 1917.

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“The fundamental premise of [the humanities] is that what mankind has thought and done has an intrinsic interest and a lasting value irrespective of any practical implications,” while “the social sciences owe their position to their promise of practical guidance.” History fits into both in that “it trains the mind, enlarges the sympathies and provides a much-needed perspective on some of the most pressing problems of our time.” – John Tosh 

Subjects: History