Research Guides: History Senior Seminar: HIS 4935

Local Primary Sources

ArchivesSpace
This database contains descriptions of the archives and manuscripts collections held at Florida State University. These collections include university archives, faculty and alumni papers, manuscript and artifact collections, and organizational and business records represented in five repositories: Special Collections & Archives, the Florida State Law Research Center, the John A. Degen Resource Room at the School of Theatre, the Allen Music Library Special Collections, and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Archives.
Visiting Special Collections
Location, hours, and registration information for accessing FSU Libraries' Special Collections.

Florida Memory
Florida Memory is a digital outreach program providing free online access to select archival resources from collections housed in the State Library and Archives of Florida.
State Archives of Florida Catalog
The Archives catalog contains descriptions of unpublished Florida documents, including: State and Local Government Records, State Agency Records, Manuscript Collections, the Florida Photographic Collection, and Genealogical Collections.
State Library of Florida Catalog
The Library catalog includes information on published materials, including: Federal Documents, Florida Public Documents, Books (Including Genealogy), Maps, Photographs, Magazines, and Vertical Files.
Visiting the State Library & Archives
Hours and location to access onsite collections, including microfilm and the Ancestry database.

Ancestry
Leon County Public Library offers a subscription to Ancestry for in-library users.
History in your Hands
Source for local history created for the Tallahassee-Leon County Bicentennial

FSU Libraries Advanced Search
OneSearch is Florida State University Libraries’ discovery search tool for books, articles, media, and more. This tool searches our local FSU collections as well as our online resources.
Dissertations & Theses Database
Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.
WorldCat
Search libraries worldwide with WorldCat! FSU Libraries can acquire materials worldwide through Inter-Library Loan.

Chicago Manual of Style
Historians use Chicago Style (sometimes called Turabian or Notes-and-Bibliography) to cite both primary and secondary sources in their research.

Writing History Research Papers
In an extended metaphor, historian Jill Lepore compares writing a research paper to going fishing.