{"id":4849,"date":"2023-03-07T13:54:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/?page_id=4849"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:23:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:23:24","slug":"finding-sources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/course-syllabus\/finding-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In October 1827, Leopold von Ranke submitted a slip of paper to a government office in Vienna, describing state documents that he wanted to read.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211;Zachary Schrag, <em>Princeton Guide to Historical Research<\/em> (2021), p. 186<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/seminar-digitalhumanities\/reading-topics-2\/topic-5-search-vs-research\/\">Search vs. Research<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>First rule of database research:\u00a0 <strong>Use needles to find haystacks<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Needle-and-haystack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6054 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Needle-and-haystack.jpg\" alt=\"Needle in haystack\" width=\"562\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Needle-and-haystack.jpg 562w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Needle-and-haystack-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First rule of archival research:\u00a0 <strong>Follow the receivers<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Lynn-Swann.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6055 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Lynn-Swann.jpg\" alt=\"Lynn Swann\" width=\"599\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Lynn-Swann.jpg 599w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Lynn-Swann-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Advanced Googling<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/\">Google Books<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hathitrust.org\/\">HathiTrust<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/\">Internet Archive<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\">Project Gutenberg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/ngrams\/\">Ngram Viewer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/warpowers\/law-of-war\/\">Vattel case study<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.mit.edu\/c.php?g=175963&amp;p=1158594\">Boolean operators<\/a> and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/technology\/20-tips-use-google-search-efficiently.html\">search hacks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/\">Wayback machine<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/course-syllabus\/lincoln-and-hollywood\/\">&#8220;Lincoln&#8221; script<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.dickinson.edu\/az\/databases\">Databases<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.dickinson.edu\/history\">History research guide<\/a> (Jill Anderson)<\/li>\n<li>Bibliographic databases:\u00a0 <strong>America: History and Life<\/strong> \/\/ <strong>Historical Abstracts<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Full-text databases:\u00a0 <strong>JSTOR<\/strong> \/\/ <strong>Project Muse<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Newspaper databases:\u00a0 <strong>Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)<\/strong> \/\/ <strong>19th-Century US Newspapers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Archival databases:\u00a0 <strong>Archive Grid \/\/ WorldCat<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>No Irish Need Apply:\u00a0 Database Case Study<\/h2>\n<p>Rebecca Fried (8th grader) vs. Richard Jensen (history professor)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2025\/03\/Freid-Jensen-article.pdf\">Washington Post on NINA Controversy (July 2015)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historynewsnetwork.org\/article\/no-irish-need-apply\">Richard Jensen&#8217;s response (HNN) (Aug 2015)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/clip\/120356873\/no-irish-need-apply\/\">Clipping from 1878 Harrisburg Telegraph<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 1827, Leopold von Ranke submitted a slip of paper to a government office in Vienna, describing state documents that he wanted to read.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211;Zachary Schrag, Princeton Guide to Historical Research (2021), p. 186 Search vs. Research First rule of database research:\u00a0 Use needles to find haystacks First rule of archival research:\u00a0 Follow the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4849","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4849\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}