History Tool Box
"Out of what survives of these portions of history, the formal narratives of an age or of a person's life are fashioned. The letter that carried news or affection becomes a documentary source; the public official's diary, written for self-protection, throws light on governmental secrets; the broken pottery or cave painting tells of a vanished people, as the modern novel and daily paper variously reveal the temper of the age. Thus does "history proper" intertwine with our speech, our beliefs, our passions, and our institutions." Jacques Barzun, The Modern Researcher
Images and Maps
Presently under construction, this link will house images and maps.
Primary Source Documents
Your instuctors may require that you do research on a historical topic using primary source material; within this link, students will find other links to projects that collect old translations (public domain) of primary source material. Primary sources are materials created by people from past time periods. For example, Pope Urban's speech at Clermont in 1095 is an example of a primary source from the Crusades; also, Usmah Ibn Munqidh's account of the Franks in 1175 is another example of a primary source. Newspapers, treaties, diaries, literature, novels, birth certificates, marriage certificates, papal bulls, constitutions or any legal documents all constitute a primary sources.
Student Resources
Pikes Peak Community College Library
http://www.ppcc.edu/current-students/library/
The above link is the home page for the Pikes Peak Community College Library; within this page, you will find links to our library's databases. This is a great place to start with your research. You also have the ability to search the catalogs at the Kramer Family Library (the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) and at the Tutt Library (Colorado College). In addition, UCCS has five public terminals in their library, where you can search their databases for electronic journals, like JSTORS--a good tool for research.
http://www.ppcc.edu/library/databases/#History_lower
Writing Centers:
http://www.ppcc.edu/current-students/special-assistance-programs/writing-center/
Writing is a process, one that includes finding a topic to write on, brainstorming ideas, organizing thoughts, creating outlines, composing several drafts, having your peers and tutors help you edit these drafts, and finalize a finish product. The faculty encourages every student, who is writing a paper, to use the Writing Center.
Here are other writing centers that will give you supplemental support in grammar, thesis construction, paper development and citation:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/index.html
http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/chicagogd.php (Chicago Manual of Style: please note that you must scroll down to the Arts, Literature and History section of the page in order to find the correct citation format.
Bibliography of Must Have References for Students:
An American Heritage Dictionary or an Oxford English Dictionary (found in the library), a Roget’s Thesaurus and the Chicago Manual of Style are references every history student needs for writing. You will find these references in the Writing Center or the Library.
Other materials include:
Barzun, Jacques and Henry F. Graff. The Modern Researcher: 6th Edition. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth/Thompson, 2004.
Lunsford, Andrea A. The Everyday Writer: Third Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin, 2005.
Rampolla, Mary Lynn. A Pocket Guide To Writing In History: Sixth Edition. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin, 2010.
Strunk Jr., William and E.B. White. The Elements of Style: Fourth Edition. Boston:
Allyn and Bacon,2000.
Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations:
Sixth Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996.