LibGuides: Honors Topics in the Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union: Revolution and Civil War Primary Source Analysis: Websites

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Britannica Academic On your article page, click on Related for links to recommended websites.
SweetSearch History, A Search Engine for Students searches only credible websites approved by research experts.
Google Limit your search to more reliable domains by including the phrase AND site:edu OR site:gov (edu for educational institutions in the U.S.; gov for U.S. government and U.S. state government entities.
- Note that universities may allow their students to use the edu domain. If there is a tilde (~) in the URL, it may be a personal student page which is not monitored by the institution. In this case it may not be a reliable site.

Soviet Union Timeline: A Chronology of Key Events
From the BBC.
Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations
Provides a general overview of the history of U.S. engagement with the world through short essays on important moments, or milestones, in the diplomatic history of the United States, 1750-2000. NOTE: "This publication... has been retired. The text remains online for reference purposes, but it is no longer being maintained or expanded."

For more information on finding reliable websites, see the guide Find and Evaluate Websites.

CITING WEBSITES IN NOODLETOOLS

PLEASE NOTE: Do not copy and paste complete citations from web pages if provided. NoodleTools cannot generate footnotes from copied and pasted citations.

Remember: a website is an online source you discover through Google (or another search engine) as opposed to a subscription database you access through the library.

For a new citation, click on +New Source.

To cite a source on a website, choose Website.

Websites can contain many kinds of sources including: Reference articles, ebook content, journal articles, primary sources, newspaper articles, speech transcripts, images, etc.
If you can determine it, select the source type from the list under Website in NoodleTools.
If it's not clear what type of source it is, choose Webpage.

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Honors Topics in the Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union: Revolution and Civil War Primary Source Analysis: Websites

About Wikipedia

FIND RELIABLE WEBSITES

Britannica Academic On your article page, click on Related for links to recommended websites.

SweetSearch History, A Search Engine for Students searches only credible websites approved by research experts.

Google Limit your search to more reliable domains by including the phrase AND site:edu OR site:gov (edu for educational institutions in the U.S.; gov for U.S. government and U.S. state government entities.

Note that universities may allow their students to use the edu domain. If there is a tilde (~) in the URL, it may be a personal student page which is not monitored by the institution. In this case it may not be a reliable site.

For more information on finding reliable websites, see the guide Find and Evaluate Websites.

CITING WEBSITES IN NOODLETOOLS

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