Resources for Historians
WCSU References
Annotated Bibliography of Vietnam Studies Publications
General Reference
This Day in History
A Great Resource from the history channel.
ABYZ What’s News Links
Thanks to Dr. Nolan for pointing this out: read newspapers from every country in the world.
Research Tools
National Archives and Records Administration
JSTOR is available through the Haas Library site.
Digital Collections at the Library of Congress
This guide is a list of terms compiled by WCSU’s history department that we believe you should be familiar with by the end of your history career, with quick definitions.
Citation and Bibliography guides
The history department expects that students completing research papers provide footnote citations consistent with the guidelines of the Chicago Manual of Style, which is the style consistently preferred in history journals. An abbreviated version of the Chicago Manual of Style can be found in Kate Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). The department recommends that history majors purchase a copy of this work.
The following are online guides to Chicago citation style and are acceptable for use when preparing papers for the department:
Chicago Manual of Style Quick Guide
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) Guide to Chicago Style
Guides to writing history
Patrick Rael’s Guide to Researching and Writing in the History Major
Rael, Professor of African-American History at Bowdoin College, gives an exhaustive guide to the writing process from how to formulate questions to the nuts and bolts of doing research.
Local History Reference
Danbury Museum and Historical Society
Litchfield Historical Society and Museum
New Milford Historical Society