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mend Donald Dean Parker and Bertha E. Josephson, Local
History: How to Gather It, Write It, and Publish It, Social
Science Research Council, 230 Park Ave., New York 17,
New York (latest edition). We also recommend that you
read Homer Carey Hockett's Introduction to Research in
American History, The Macmillan Company, New York.
The following four essays and pamphlets are also very help-
ful: George Shelton Hubbell, Writing Documented Papers,
College Outline Series, Barnes and Noble, Inc., New York;
Marvin Wilson Schlegel, Writing Local History Articles,
Bulletins of the American Association for State and Local
History, Montpelier, Vermont, Vol. II, No. 2, May, 1949;
Charles A. Anderson's How to Write the History of a
Church, published by the Presbyterian Historical Society,
520 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia 7, Pa.; David C.
Duniway's What You Can Write About the History of
Your Home Town, Oregon State Archives, Bulletin No. 1,
Publication No. io, Salem, Oregon. The last three men-
tioned pamphlets are either free or can be purchased at a
nominal cost. Write for copies. The more material you have
to guide you, the better you can prepare yourself.
How To Take Notes. After reading this brief bibliography
on how to collect historical materials, you will realize and
appreciate the necessity of working with cards or sheets of
uniform size. In our own experience we have always found
it helpful to work with the regular letter-size sheets, 8V2 x II
inches. We strongly advise that whenever you copy anything
-by hand or by typewriter-you slip in two carbons so
that you have three copies altogether. There are a number
of reasons for this. You may lose one of your sheets. In ad-
dition, you will certainly want to use the material on one
copy for several different paragraphs and even for different
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Marcus, Jacob Rader, 1896-1995. How to Write the History of an American Jewish Community, pamphlet, 1964; Cincinnati, Ohio. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1436803/m1/6/?q=%22~1~1%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.