In this third episode of our series on how historians research and write on historical topics, the panel explains how they tackle the potentially vast body of existing secondary sources that will help them provide context on the research project. We discuss different ways to search for secondary sources, how to determine which secondary sources might be more useful or important than others, and the historian’s ethical responsibility to be familiar with the entire existing literature on the topic.
Speaker timeline:
02:42 - CB Repass 03:20 - Matt Schandler 07:31 - Allison Millward 08:14 - Eric Greisinger 09:11 - Matt Schandler 11:08 - Allison Millward 11:45 - CB Repass 13:07 - Allison Millward 14:14 - Ryan Tripp 15:02 - Eric Greisinger 15:21 - CB Repass 15:34 - Rob Denning 18:13 - Matt Schandler 20:27 - Ryan Tripp 21:35 - Rob Denning
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