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HIST 2161/AFRS 2161: African American History Survey 1860 to the Present

Analyzing Primary Documents

For your paper, you will need to analyze various primary documents to build an argument for your Archives Paper. The video below will show you how to use the Library of Congress Primary Source Analysis Tool to analyze a document. If you wish to follow along, Randi (the Instruction Archivist), will be using this print from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper depicting African Americans en route to Kansas via St. Louis, 1879 that can be found as part of the Digital Library Collection: Exodusters: African American Migration to the Great Plains

Citation of Digital Primary Documents

Writing a paper requires a scholar to cite their work. For your Archives paper, you will be using the Chicago style for your citations. In the video below, the archivist will be using this tool from the Library of Congress for Citing Primary Sources in Chicago Style. The primary source will be a print from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper depicting African Americans en route to Kansas via St. Louis, 1879 from the Exodusters: African American Migration to the Great Plains

Other citation tools for class papers: 

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