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When starting your research for your History Day project, you should find your basic information in one of our encyclopdias. After you have the basics, go to ABC-CLIO or EBSCO for more information. With a good foundation, you are ready to look for your PRIMARY SOURCES.

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 * < ===Step 1: Develop a paperwork management system=== ||
 * < ===Step 2: Select a Topic=== ||
 * < ===Step 3: Do Background Reading for Historical Context=== ||
 * < ===Step 4: Narrow Your Topic=== ||
 * < ===Step 5: Gather and Record Information=== ||
 * < ===Step 6: Analyze and Interpret your Sources and the Topic's Significance in History=== ||
 * < ===Step 7: Develop your thesis=== ||
 * < ===Step 8: Finalize your NHD research project=== ||
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"primary sources include documents, artifacts, historic sites, songs, or other written and tangible items created during the historical period you are studying." ||  ||
 * DATABASES || PRIMARY SOURCES ||  ||
 * [[image:abc-cliodata.jpg link="http://databases.abc-clio.com/Multi/"]] || "A primary source is a piece of information about a historical event or period in which the creator of the source was an actual participant in or a contemporary of a historical moment."
 * [[image:EBSCOEhost.gif link="@http://search.ebscohost.com/Community.aspx?custid=s9410526&authtype=ip&ugt=7436359634463E1635063457382735642EE267D36413619360E325E33013370335&return=y&IsMobile=N"]] || * American Memory Project from the Library of Congress
 * Documents for the Study of American History
 * American rhetronic: the power of oratory in the United States
 * Eyewitness to history: history through the eyes of those who lived it ||  ||
 * [[image:JrRef.gif link="@http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/start.do?prodId=JRC&userGroupName=fl_leeschdst"]] || US History Primary Sources

World History Primary Sources ||  ||
 * [[image:infoTracJr.gif link="@http://find.galegroup.com/gtx/start.do?prodId=STOJ&userGroupName=fl_leeschdst"]] || PHOTOS, MAPS & OTHER IMAGES
 * **The American Memory Project** ||  ||