What is Beltane? Beltane is the Gaelic May Day festival, traditionally begins at sunset on April 30th and ends at sunset of May 1st. Considered the height of spring and the beginning…
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Research, a Constantly Moving Target
The process of research is ever changing and ongoing. Research is a constantly moving target that never ends. The changeable nature of research. While we have often written about sources used in…
The Origins of the Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny is one of the best known symbols of Easter, but what are the Easter Bunny’s origins? We know him as the fuzzy figure who hides eggs for children to…
What are Ethnographic Sources?
In this blog, we focus on Ethnographic sources, a type of primary source that is inconsistently outside of academia, and yet they are invaluable. So far we have already covered Primary Sources…
Written Accounts and Visual Representations as Primary Sources
Academic scholars also consider written accounts, such as diaries, writing on monuments, letters, commonplace books, autobiographies, wills, court documents, treaties, books of law, and merchant logs as primary sources.
Photographs in Archaeology as a Primary Source
In academia, photographs are not just considered an acceptable primary source; they are an invaluable one. Archaeological research often destroys the item that it uncovers, and the only way these artifacts are…
Multiple editions of the same source in research
So our question today is why use multiple editions of the same source in your research and why include it in a bibliography. I wrote this, as I often do, in response…
Primary Sources and the Lens of Research
Primary sources are the first hand artifacts of a time period and one of the most important parts of research.
Welcome to the Researcher’s Gateway!
Welcome to the Researcher’s Gateway! We’re pretty excited to introduce you to our project, which is designed to help make research easier. We plan to discuss research tools, terms, tips, and stories…
Our Research Topics
Our Research Collections span the globe and the timeline. Here you can find our research topics listed in 3 sections. “Current Research” is everything that we have active at this time, and…