For your source studies, you are required to analyze primary sources from the two resources below. Examples of primary sources are letters, diaries, trial transcripts, sermons, government documents, and retrospective memoirs (published closely after 1692 by persons who witnessed, or lived at the same time as, the Salem crisis).
Another source for additional primary documents would be:
For this assignment, be sure to choose only articles that contain original research, from primary sources; in other words, ignore book reviews and historiographical (“state of the field”) articles.
If the Journal is available via a database (versus a publisher's website such as Oxford University Press), you can do an Advanced Search that combines the Journal title (or ID number), a keyword phrase describing your search (i.e., "salem witchcraft"), and limit the results to "Articles" - that way you won't get any book reviews in your results.
Where to find more refereed scholarly journals for History:
This link opens in a new windowReferences to articles and books on the history of the world focusing on the 15th century to the present (excluding the United States and Canada), indexing 1955 to present.
This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new windowAn historical, fulltext archive of core journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
For your historiography paper, you are to choose two books from the list below. The books are listed in chronological order of their publication (oldest first). All the books are available, either at NEIU or through I-Share.
Click on the link to get printable instructions. You will learn how to set up your NEIU Libraries' accounts.
