7 April 2014 Many government compilations credit no individual. In those cases, the author is typically the agency. If the agency is also the publisher, your citation may ...

6 April 2014
Publication titles follow different capitalization practices, according to the language in which they are written. For example ...

5 April 2013 Many published works have long titles that we cite fully in the first reference note that uses that source. Thereafter, we may create "shortened titles," but we should do so thoughtfully. A short title should always ...

4 April 2014 It's free. It's downloadable. The Society of American Archivists has an indispensable e-book: USING ARCHIVES: A Guide to Effective Research. Among its topics ...

3 April 2014 Ah, the confusion that exists over these two concepts! Does it matter? Are the distinctions between them essential or just more of the clap-trap that make so many people cringe at the word "citations"? ...

2 April 2014
Dogtrot: A style of home popular in the nineteenth century rural America. Typically, it had ... . This link offers a sampling of photos. ...

1 April 2014
You've found a will dated 1811. The testator leaves to "my 5 children Lorenzo, Lemuel, Leroy, Lucinda, and Lawrence, the land on which each of them now lives." Then he leaves ... . How would you interpret this?

31 March 2014
Fire, floods, vermin, and human neglect have destroyed many legal records that were created at the county or town level. For court records, copies might exist in an alternate source ...

30 March 2014 Last Sunday we introduced differences in the ways that American English and British English handle quotation marks. The differences in handling that punctuation are even more pronounced when another punctuation mark is needed at the end of the quotation ...

29 March 2014 Published government documents belong to the class of records that scholars calls "printed primary sources," meaning that they are 'original' historic records now available in printed form. However, they hold significant potential for error ...