Tutorials and Documentation
GitHub help:
- General GitHub documentation
- Specific documentation on GitHub Desktop
- What you can and can’t do with GitHub Mobile
- How to set up your GitHub Pages (username.github.io) repository
- Using Terminal with GitHub and messed something up? Here are some helpful commands to fix common errors
- Markdown tutorial
Twine help:
Key Library Links
- British History Online (primary sources)
- Direct link to GMU login for Bibliography of British and Irish history
- Direct link to GMU login for Daily Life Through History
- Direct link to GMU login for Early English Books Online (primary sources)
- Direct link to GMU login for ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Direct link to GMU login for JSTOR (academic research journals)
- Direct link to GMU login for Oxford English Dictionary (how era-appropriate is your language?)
- Direct link to GMU login for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (short biographies on people of historical significance)
- Direct link to GMU login for Perdita Manuscripts (primary sources, women’s writing)
- Direct link to GMU login for Project Muse (academic research journals)
- GMU Advanced Catalog Search (select WRLC catalogs to see all books in the northern Virginia area that can be rapidly shipped to campus)
- GMU InfoGuide on British/UK History (note: weighted towards later history, but still has some good stuff on it)
- Worldcat (if you’re not near a GMU campus and are trying to find the closest copy of a book near to your current location)
Finding Journal Articles
There are numerous ways to find journal articles on early modern English history. One good way to start is by “bibliography chaining,” which is just a fancy way of saying: read the footnotes of another book/article, if a book/article listed in those footnotes sounds interesting/relevant then go look it up by name in the library catalog and read it.
You can also browse and search by keywords/subject. Many articles are included in the basic search bar of the GMU Library’s catalog. You can also search databases of journal articles, such as JSTOR or Project Muse (linked above). Alternatively, you can search for specific journals and look for relevant articles within them. Some potential journals to look for (all of which you should have *free access* to via GMU) include:
- Past & Present
- Journal of British Studies
- Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society
- Sixteenth Century Journal
- Renaissance Quarterly
- Huntington Library Quarterly
Other Writing Tips, Guides, and Information
Joe Miller’s Writing Tips: These writing tips were created by the late Dr. Joseph C. Miller and are shared here for academic/classroom use only with his permission. The following link will give you a zip file you must uncompress to get to the Word documents: Miller’s Writing Tips
