Selected reading: Named section and worked examples.
Open the source ↗How to study this source
How do we know what happened?
Reconstruct the main argument and identify the assumptions linking it to the route’s question.
Ideas and questions
Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.
Read alongside, read against
National Archives: immigration records
US National Archives. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Library of Congress: newspapers
Library of Congress. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Library of Congress: maps
Library of Congress. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
National Archives: citation guidance
US National Archives. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Early Modern England: Lecture 1 - General Introduction
Keith Wrightson. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.