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"Houston: Past, Present, and Future" (e-book) (Texas State Historical Association)
You can click through this e-book to learn about Houston's history and predictions for its future progress. For more about the Texas State Historical Association, click here: https://www.tshaonline.org/home/
Fact versus Opinion
This handout is reprinted from https://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/co300man/pop12d.cfm)
"When forming personal convictions, we often interpret factual evidence through the filter of our values, feelings, tastes, and past experiences. Hence, most statements we make in speaking and writing are assertions of fact, opinion, belief, or prejudice. The usefulness and acceptability of an assertion can be improved or diminished by the nature of the assertion, depending on which of the following categories it falls into."
Interactive Maps: The World Wars, the Holocaust, and After the Cold War
This is a list of links to interactive maps dealing with World War I and its aftermath, World War II, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Objective versus Subjective
This handout is reprinted from http://www.differencebetween.net/language/difference-between-objective-and-subjective/ This explains and gives examples of objective and subjective writing.
Primary and Secondary Sources in History (2019)
"The concept of ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ sources is key to studying and writing history...Sources are usually divided into two categories, primary and secondary. These definitions would be different for the sciences and the below apply to the humanities."
Writing a Precis (by HCC Online Tutoring)
This handout will help you understand what a précis is, the parts of a précis, and a sample to help you understand how to construct one. "A précis is a specific summary of an article, book or speech that uses the same language and overall structure of the original source. It is also known as an abstract, summary, executive summary or synopsis."

Digitized Collections & Virtual Tours

"These Newly Digitized Military Maps Explore The World of George III" [Smithsonian Magazine]
Includes maps of colonial America. "The last British monarch to reign over the American colonies had a collection of more than 55,000 maps, each with their own story to tell."
National Women's History Museum
"Women's contributions and accomplishments for the most part have been overlooked and consequently omitted from mainstream culture. The National Women's History Museum helps fill that void. Rather than rewriting current exhibitions at other history museums or having to decide what to omit elsewhere to "fit in" women's history, the Museum serves to place women's history along side current historical exhibitions."

Websites and Videos

"Atomic bombing of Nagasaki - BBC" (BBC Studios)
"Accounts of the American justification for dropping a second bomb in Nagasaki [during World War II]. From the BBC."
"Hiroshima: Dropping The Bomb - Hiroshima - BBC" (BBC Studios)
"Hear first-hand accounts from the air and ground, re-telling every memory from the day the world first witnessed the horrors of atomic warfare." This one is about the bombing of Hiroshima during World War II.
Declaration of Independence, Constitution, & Bill of Rights -- America's Founding Documents (National Archives)
"These three documents, known collectively as the Charters of Freedom, have secured the rights of the American people for more than two and a quarter centuries and are considered instrumental to the founding and philosophy of the United States." The site gives history and information about each document.
History -- UNC Writing Center
"This handout [website] was written with several goals in mind: to explain what historians do and how they approach the writing process, to encourage you to think about your history instructor’s expectations, and to offer some strategies to help you write effectively in history courses."
The Library of Congress - Home
"The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office." (https://www.loc.gov/about/)
The National Archives
"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever." (https://www.archives.gov/about)
Political Science -- UNC Writing Center
"This handout [website] will help you to recognize and to follow writing standards in political science. The first step toward accomplishing this goal is to develop a basic understanding of political science and the kind of work political scientists do."

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