5 June 2014 Although published, broadsides from past centuries have had a high destruction rate and copies of any particular broadside may be extremely rare. For that reason, when we find them in ...

4 June 2014 Who knew there could be so many different kinds of endowment involving women? Do you know the differences in these when you encounter them in old records? ...

5 June 2014 Yesterday's test question seemed easy: You’ve found a print book replicated online and it carries a great quote you want to cite. ... How would you cite the book that provides the quote? The issues involved, of course, were not so simple. Even more daunting is the thought that many of the materials we find online present similar issues that we have to work through--not just to create a workable citation but also to determine whether or not we should even use this particular source.

3 June 2014 You’ve found a great book in an HTML version online. The epigraph to p. 139 (you DO, of course, remember what an epigraph is, from our recent Wednesday’s Words) has a great quote you want to cite. Citing a quote from a book should be as easy as describing candy in a candy store, right? So let’s see what you come up with …

2 June 2014 When citing military records, the "essential elements" of our citation will vary, depending upon whether we are citing a person-based or unit-based record. The basic distinctions are these ...

1 June 2014 Samuel Goldwyn famously quipped that the world needs some new clichés. For certain, writers of history have worn out all those created in the past 300 years. Consider ...

31 May 2014 Most published conference syllabi carry a specific title. As a rule, we should pull that title from the title page, rather than the often-stylized cover. The complexity of ...

30 May 2014 The History Page. Its images are gripping, poignant, delightful, funny, and horrific. Most will cause you to pause at least a moment to think about the past and how it has shaped our present. ...

29 May 2014 Sources err. Sources quibble. Sources exaggerate. Sources misremember. Sources are biased. Sources have egos and ideologies. Sources jostle for a toehold in the marketplace of ideas. So why do we invest so much of our own energy into the citation of those sources? Because all sources are not created equal. History is not ...