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Writing manuals and guides for history papers

Writing guide for students of history (uOttawa History Department)
The authoritative guide to writing your history paper from the department itself. Contains a citation guide as well.
A Brief Guide to Writing the History Paper (Harvard University)
Explains how to understand your assignments and develop your arguments.Provides suggestions for sources and how to use them.
Writing About History (University of Toronto_
A helpful guide that provides information on how to interpret primary and secondary sources. It also offers advice on historical argumentation and writing.
Citing archival material in Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
If you use Library and Archives Canada (LAC) material in your research, you must include information about this material in your work using citations and credit lines. The information you give depends on the type of material.

To think historically, students need to be able to:

Establish historical significance
Use primary source evidence
Identify continuity and change
Analyze cause and consequence
Take historical perspectives, and
Understand the ethical dimension of historical interpretations.
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The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition by The University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226287058
Publication Date: 2017
This seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style offers updated guidelines on electronic workflows and publication formats, tools for PDF annotation and citation management, web accessibility standards, and effective use of metadata, abstracts, and keywords.