This class guide provides resources to help you find the information you'll need for your history paper. It suggests specific resources for specific steps in the research process. Keep in mind these are suggested steps, feel free to skip around to find the information you need.
For additional resources see the American history research guide.
Most of the databases on this guide are restricted to UW students, staff and faculty. When you use a link with lock icon you may be prompted to login with your uwnetid and password.
Have questions or need research help? Please contact Theresa Mudrock, the history librarian, at mudrock@uw.edu.
Historian's generally use the Chicago style format for footnotes/endnotes and bibliography. This one page guide provides examples for the most common type of sources. See the Citations and Writing page for more guides and information.
Check the Awards page for more information and the application form.
If you are using Husky OnNet to connect to the research guide and to the UW Libraries resources you may run into a problem connecting to databases, ejournals & ebooks. To fix the problem you will need to tweak the Husky OnNet by configuring the connection to accept "All Internet Traffic" as shown in these directions.