“Find at least one secondary source or more (peer-reviewed sources, such as scholarly books or journal articles) including relevant chapters from the course text to support your primary sources.
Reviewing secondary sources is important to fully understanding a topic because they reveal what other historians have learned and think about the topic. Secondary sources can help you fill in holes that the primary sources did not reveal or they could be used to give more evidence for what you found in the primary sources.
You can interject evidence from the secondary sources throughout your paper OR you can include your discussion of various secondary sources after you have completed your discussion of the primary sources. Be sure that you clearly illustrate how the secondary sources support your primary sources.
Secondary sources may be located through a number of avenues, including the TCC Library and its database collection (particularly, JSTOR). Encyclopedia and dictionary entries will not count as part of your secondary sources. Your secondary sources must be academic and, if journal articles, peer-reviewed.Find at least one secondary source or more (peer-reviewed sources, such as scholarly books or journal articles) including relevant chapters from the course text to support your primary sources.
