Now that you\u2019ve identified secondary sources, how do you determine their credibility and usefulness?<\/p>\n
Each secondary source should be evaluated according to the following criteria:<\/p>\n
Even after you\u2019ve evaluated a secondary source, it may be useful to consider how other experts have responded to the work. There are a number of online networks of historians within a specific subject or region that can offer nuanced insight on secondary literature. Often, these communities create free online reviews of new texts while also discussing and evaluating established historical interpretation.<\/p>\n
An easy way to locate these networks is to browse or join H-Net<\/a>. H-Net is a collaborative network of scholars, organized into a number of subject-specific groups on a wide variety of topics. You can find these networks here: https:\/\/networks.h-net.org\/networks<\/a>. There are networks for individual states and geographical regions, like H-Ohio<\/a>, H-New Mexico<\/a>, or H-West<\/a>. If you are interested in following the conversation of a particular network, this helpful guide<\/a> describes how to set up an account, subscribe to a network, and start a thread. To locate useful reviews, you can browse and subscribe to a network pertaining to that subject, like H-Appalachia<\/a>, H-Afro-Am<\/a>, H-Eugenics<\/a>, \u00a0or you can peruse the reviews across all the networks here. http:\/\/www.h-net.org\/reviews\/home.php<\/a>. If you would like to locate a review on a specific book, search the title or author here on the review search page<\/a>)<\/p>\n A number of historical online communities have developed specialized online spaces for a discussion of certain fields or eras.*<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *The resources provided here are good places to start, but we recognize they are national networks.<\/p>\n Assess the secondary sources related to your local history project <\/span>in the bibliography you created in Activity 4.2. For each of your 5-10 sources create an annotation that:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Previous Section<\/a> | Module Assignment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Estimated time to complete this section: 4 hours Now that you\u2019ve identified secondary sources, how do you determine their credibility and usefulness? Each secondary source should be evaluated according to the following criteria: What is the author\u2019s narrative? What primary sources are used as evidence to support the author’s narrative? To what extent do the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":82,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-left.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/536\/revisions\/3270"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Activity 4.3: Create an annotated bibliography<\/h4>\n
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