Library of Congress: primary source analysis

Separate observation, inference and questions.

How to study this source

• How do we know what happened?

  coreNamed section and worked examples

  Separate observation, inference and questions.

• How does scientific knowledge change?

  coreNamed section and worked examples

  Separate observation, inference and questions.

• How did industrialisation remake the world?

  coreNamed section and worked examples

  Separate observation, inference and questions.

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.