Tutorial
- Historical Research @ UIC Tutorial Google FormSeries of short instructional videos with response prompts (shared with the History librarian for feedback) to help you use the library website & History Research Guide to turn your topic idea into a keyword search, set of relevant sources, and eventually a research question
Electronic Reference Collections
Encyclopedia articles, historical dictionaries, and other reference books are a great place to start because they give you basic facts, context, overview, names and dates and other search vocabulary you can use to begin researching historical events, groups, institutions, processes, and conflicts.
- American National Biography
Biographical work on people from all eras who have influenced American history and culture.
Note: Limited to 5 simultaneous users - Credo Reference
Provides access to a collection of aggregated and integrated reference books from high-quality publishers.
- Oxford Reference OnlineSpecialty encyclopedias, handbooks, thesauruses and dictionaries; emphasis on American Literature and Western Civilization.
