GENERAL HISTORY

Handbooks/Style Manuals

Handbooks/Historical Methodology
Style Manuals

Graduate School and History Departments

Professional Materials

STYLE MANUALS

Chicago Manual of Style. 14th edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Probably the standard guide concerning grammar, punctuation, quotations, documentation, for paper writing.
King Ref Z 253 .U69 1993

Reserach and Documentation in the Electronic Age. Diana Hacker. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins,1999.
King Ref LB2369.H33 1999
see website: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc

A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Kate Turabian. (John Grossman and Alice Bennett eds.) 6th edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. (Turabian's Manual)
A distillation of the Chicago manual, especially good for quick, standard bibliographic formats.
King Ref LB 2369 .T8 1996

Graduate Schools and History Departments

Directory of History Departments and Organizations in the United States and Canada. Washington, D.C. : American Historical Association, Institutional Services Program, 1990-
List of faculty, programs, and requirements. Includes excellent description of major historical archives and their collecitons. Lists doctoral dissertations completed and in progress.
King Ref D16.3 .G83

Guide to Graduate Programs in Public History. Parker Hubbard Cohen, ed. Indianapolis: NCPH, 1996.
Directory with program descriptions and requirements. Includes faculty.
King Ref D16.3 .G842 1996

Professional

Becoming a Historian: A Survival Manual. Melanie S. Gustafson. [Washington, D.C.] : Committee on Women Historians and the American Historical Association, 2001
D13 .B397 2001