In this chapter Brundage explains to his audience how important it is to use the library and online cataloging to your advantage as a historian. When looking at a historical event like the Boston Tea party one can type this into google and find hundreds of small articles that will all share the same event almost identically. Brundage wants us to look beyond what everyone already knows. Even though we need that basis for our research of the actual event Brundage wants us to go beyond that and get information from different points of view. What were the women's role at the time of the Boston Tea party? Did slaves come into affect? How did the British react? These are things that the general reader may not know and it is our job as a historian to use these databases to find out.
How valid are personal journals written by historical figures ? is there a way to cross reference them to validate them?
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