ENGL 218/418: Historical look at communication - Edenborg: ENGL 218/418: Historical look at communication - Edenborg

UW-Stout Digital Collections

• Stoutonia
  Complete issues of the Stoutonia student newspaper, 1915-present
• Tower Yearbook
  Digital issues of the Stout yearbook, 1909-1989 
• Athletics Collections
  Sports programs, pamphlets, and statistics from athletics teams at UW-Stout and its predecessors
• Campus News
  News releases and daily campus news publications for students, faculty, and staff
• Student Publications
  Publications created and produced by Stout students
• Bulletins
  ​Graduate and undergraduate bulletins, 1903-Current
• Oral Histories
  Oral histories and other audio recordings featuring individuals from campus and the surrounding region
• Campus Photographs
  Photographs of Stout classrooms and student organizations, 1890s-1990s
• Campus Directories
  Directories of faculty, staff, and students beginning in 1916
• Stout Commencement Programs
  Stout Commencement Programs, 1903-current

When conducting historical research you will want to use a variety of primary and secondary sources. 

Secondary sources

• Written about the time period you are studying
• Include books, journal articles, reviews, websites
• Look for words such as "history," "analysis,"  "context"
• Narrow your results to scholarly (peer-reviewed) sources to find high-quality research-based articles

Primary Sources:

• Written or created during the time you are studying
• Include articles, newspaper articles, pictures, data, letters, etc.
• When searching, do not use words such as "history" or "article."  Instead, use a general key term, such as "education," and narrow down the dates to find what was being written about that topic during your time period
• Try to use language from your time-period.  Example: "vocational education"
• Do not narrow your results to scholarly (peer-reviewed) sources

For all works:

• Consider the slant or biases of the original author or historian writing about it