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Citing Sources

• Help with Turabian :Turabian Style Guidance
• Use Citing Sources for examples of "In-Text Citations" and "Works Cited"
• Use the Citing Websites and Print Sources to get call numbers for paper copies of syle manuals.
• Microsoft Word has a footnote feature: write you sentence/paragraph, click Insert-Reference-Footnotes. This will insert footnotes and keep them in order.

Multi-Media Examples

Images from a webpage
Footnote or endnote entry
Bibliographic list entry	Monster Shack Posters S-V. "Tarantula." Monster Shack Web site. http://www.monstershack.net/postersnew/posters_sz.php (accessed February 11, 2008).

*additional Turabian format examples 

Evaluating Websites

• Evaluating Websites: to determine if the site is authoritative enough to use in your paper.

Some Useful Websites

• American Memory: searches American primary sources, including early Congressional documents, the Declaration of Independence, The Federalist Papers, the Constitution, etc. Also offers documents, maps, motion pictures, photos & prints and sound recordings.
• Ad*Access: funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
• The Literature and Culture of the 1950s: an alphabetical list to readings, sites and other information for the American 1950s.

• The Harvard Project on Cold War Studies: important links to Cold War Studies

• Levittown, Pa: Northwestern University Library
• National Archives and Records Administration: archives public documents of all varieties and relevant topics that encompass the "American Experience," with links to related sites:
  • Postwar United States

• Exhibits/Posters
• You Tube: huge video source

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