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Class 10: Cold War


Now that you've identified some potential topics through in reference sources, you're ready to move on to more specific sources, get more details, and build your argument.

This is where secondary sources comes in. 

Remember, the goal isn't to read an entire book.
Instead, you'll be reading specific pages or sections within a book that relate to your topic. Use the index and table of contents to help guide you to those pages.

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You can find books in two places: in the stacks at the library and in our eBook database. Below is just a small sampling of what is available.

This is a link to the library catalogwhere you can find all the physical books the library has in its collection

This is a link to our scholarly eBook databasewhere you can find over 100,000 books from academic and university presses


secondary sources: books in the stacks

secondary sources: databases & websites