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Doing the Decades:
Group Investigations in Twentieth Centruy U.S. History

Bibliography

Preliminary Bibliography

Locate 10 secondary sources related to the theme, questions and topics you are investigating. Remember that a secondary source is not an eyewitness account of an event, person's life, or pattern of change. These sources must be different from others used by your research group.

Good places to start are:

  • specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries
  • journals and magazines
  • books about the era/time period you are studying
  • books about the specific topics you are emphasizing
  • online sources (historical web sites, archives of topical articles)
  • literature (novels, short stories, poetry, essays about the period/topics)

Annotated Bibliography

The final annotated bibliography must contain 20 sources (10 secondary, 15 primary). See Citing Electronic Sources for American Memory materials used. The annotation for each entry should not exceed 75 words.

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