Methods and Culture: Hispanic Heritage Month
Find multidisciplinary historical and contemporary resources to use when researching Hispanic heritage.
Documentary Research in the Social Sciences
This guest post from Dr. Malcolm Tight walks you through key steps for conducting research with documents-- on or offline.
Practical Tips for Getting Started with Harvesting and Analyzing Online Text
How can you collect and analyze text you find online?
Doing Archival Research: On and Offline
What is archival research like in the digital age? When do you need to visit a physical archives and look through paper documents?
Finding and Using Archives
Find an open-access guide to archival research and links to archives you can visit online.
Researching Lives Qualitatively through Time: Broadening the Evidence
How can you study a question or problem over time?
Getting Started with Archival Research
What is archival research, and why is it useful for social researchers?
Finding Data in Documents and Datasets
What kinds of documents or archived materials fit your study?
Research Ethics & Extant Data
See this research discussion with Wyke Stommel and Lynn de Rijk about ethical use of online data.
Letters as Data
Letters are a unique form of narrative. Learn how to use them in your research.