How to Videos

Theme

• 2022 Theme Video -  Debate and Diplomacy in History

• What is Diplomacy?

Research

• Narrowing down your topic (new!)

• Using the Gale Resources to Narrow Your Topic

• Keywords (new!)

• Primary Sources (new!)

• Understanding Primary Sources (new!)

• Choosing Resources

• How to Use the Gale Resources

• How to Find Library Books 

• Search the Web Like a Historian

• How to Evaluate WebSites 

• Paraphrasing and Quoting

Annotated Bibliography

• What is an Annotated Bibliography?

• What is an Annotated Bibliography? (Annotations)

• How to Create Your NHD Bibliography

• How to Cite a Book Using EasyBib

• How to Cite a Website Using EasyBib 

Thesis Statement

• How To Write A Thesis Statement

• How to Write an NHD Thesis Statement

 Links to Primary Sources

•  Library of Congress Digital Collections

• National Archives

• DigitalPublic Library of America - Primary Source Sets

• Cornell Making of America Digital Library

• Documents for the Study of American History

• Primary Sources Research Colloquium

• NASA History

• National Women's History Museum

• Veterans History Project

• Africans in America

• Race and Place: African American Community Histories

• UMBRA Search - African American History

• National Archives Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

• Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives - Access 16359 descriptions of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, films, works of art and organizational records.

• New York Public Library Digital Collections

• Harvard Digital Collections

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy (4000 bc - present)

• UK National Archives

• Digital South Asia Library

• Euro Docs - World History 

Project Checklists

• Historical Paper

• Exhibit

• Website

• Documentary

• Performance

Graphic Organizers 

• Topic Proposal Form

• Secondary Source Research Notes Graphic Organizer

• Primary Source Research Notes Graphic Organizer

• Thesis Proposal Form

• Project Outline Form

Project Rubrics

• Exhibit

• Paper

• Website

• Documentary

MLA

• MLA Style Introduction (Purdue University)  

Annotated Bibliography

• EasyBib - Online citation generator.

• BibMe - Use for citing primary sources.

• NHD Annotated Bibliography Directions

• Citing Primary Sources - Library of Congress guide to citing primary sources.

Sample Annotated Bibliography

Sample Annotated Bibliography - NHD Project Example