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Links
Writing and
researching for history undergraduates
See the excellent website created by Patrick Rael of Bowdoin College:
http://academic.bowdoin.edu/WritingGuides/
Another site, created by Todd Carney of Southern Oregon University, can
also serve as a useful guide: http://www.sosc.edu/history/carney/writing.htm
Proper Citation
Format
On proper footnoting, see the Chicago manual of style, but for quick online
reference check the following:
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChicago.html
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/history/footnotes.html
The Oberlin College
Archives has the best example that I have found of how to cite primary
source archival material:
http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/using/citations.html
Demographic Data
The
Historical United States,
Census Data Browser
The United States Census Bureau,
"Historical
Census Statistics on the Foreign-born Population of the United States:
1850-1990"
The United States Census Bureau, Selected
Historical Decennial Census Population and Housing Counts
Maps and Building Surveys
The Library of Congress houses Panoramic
Maps many of which are available online.
Now part of the National Park Service, the
Historic American Building Survey and Historic Engineering Record
have documented a significant amount of the American built landscape;
many of their reports are available at the Library of Congress and many
are also online in the American
Memory Collection of the LOC.
Oral History
The Southern Oral History Project at the
University of North Carolina
The
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
American
Folklife Center, Guide to Fieldwork
Historic Preservation
National Register of Historic
Places (National Trust for Historic Preservation)
Ohio Historic Preservation Office
Cleveland Landmarks
Commission (City of Cleveland)
Cleveland Restoration Society
American Institute of Architects,
Cleveland Chapter
Cleveland
Regional Sources
The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
The Northern Ohio Data and
Information Service
Regional Art in Cleveland:
an Electronic Guide
Inventory
of Outdoor Sculpture in Ohio--The Sculpture Center
Euclid Corridor Project
Cleveland Public Art
Greater Cleveland Regional Transportation
Authority
Euclid Corridor Transportation
Project, Silver Line
Public
Art Master Plan (pdf)
Ideastream--WCPN & WVIZ
Cleveland Cultural Gardens Materials
Crooked
River: Issue 4, Cleveland Cultural Gardens
Clare Lederer, Their
Paths Are Peace (1954)
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