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Index and abstracts of humanities and arts literature with some full text. Use to find articles on the history of the place you choose. Try different keyword searches and approaches to finding articles. Are the impacts human, natural or impacted by a combination of both? Use of the place to build a fortification or military use that could have impacted the ar
This page, by William Cronon - University of Wisconsin-Madison, has key stages of the research process: * How to Frame a Researchable Question * What Are the Documents? * On the Search * The Pleasures of Note-Taking * Arguments and Narrative * Positioning Your Argument in a Wider Literature * Drafting, Revising, and Editing * Manuscripts and Archives * Prowling the Periodicals * Government Documents * Photographic Images * Maps * The Interview Dance * Quantitative Evidence * How to Read a Landscape
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For example, instead of just searching Boston Back Bay AND environmental history you may find useful information in books on the history of Boston.
Follow up on subject headings within catalog records to either narrow or broaden your search.
For Boston’s Back Bay try subjects searches ranging from specific to broad: * Fills (Earthwork)--Massachusetts--Boston--History * Landscape--Massachusetts--Boston--History. * Boston (Mass.)--Historical geography * Land use--Massachusetts--Boston--History. * Boston (Mass.)--History.
What was the natural environment of your place?
Finding books on salt marsh ecology may help understand the environmental history of a place like the Back Bay of Boston.
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Scrutinize article titles, number of pages, and journal title
Browse promising abstract and conclusion sections of long studies
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link to get options for obtaining the full text of the article.