This guide will help you find secondary sources in history. Click the tabs to the left for details.

Secondary sources are the books, journal articles, and other materials that historians write by using primary source materials, such as contemporary newspaper or magazine accounts, memoirs, government documents, etc. For assistance with locating primary sources see this guide.

For more information on general library resources, see our tutorials.

Citation Management Tools

• Zotero - free citation management tool. See this handout and this research guide.

Citation Manuals

• ​The Chicago Manual of Style: Link to 16th edition | Link to 17th edition
• The OU Writing Center has examples from various style guides.
• There are print copies of style guides in the Learning Lab for use while in Bizzell.