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Tutorial

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.