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We honor the historical record, but understand that its interpretation constantly evolves as historians analyze primary documents in light of the ever-expanding body of secondary literature that places those documents in a larger context. By "documents," historians typically mean all forms of evidence-not just written texts, but artifacts, images, statistics, oral recollections, the built and natural environment, and many other things-that have survived as records of former times. By "secondary literature," we typically mean all subsequent interpretations of those former times based on the evidence contained in primary documents. This distinction between primary and secondary sources is among the most fundamental that historians make. Drawing the boundary between them is a good deal more complicated than it might seem, since determining whether a document is primary or secondary largely depends on the questions one asks of it. At the most basic level, though, the professional practice of history means respecting the integrity of primary and secondary sources while subjecting them to critical scrutiny and contributing in a fair-minded way to ongoing scholarly and public debates over what those sources tell us about the past. [from the AHA's Statement of Standards]
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You'll know you have successfully installed the Zotero connector/plug-in when you see Zotero icons appear in the top right-hand corner of the browser window. Remember that to use Zotero, you need to have the Zotero software up and running while you are searching in your browser. If you use multiple installations of Zotero (i.e. on your laptop and on a thumbdrive), turn on the Sync function in each installation so that the computer you are currently using will be updated to have all citations saved using your username anywhere. First create a account on the Zotero webpage. Then open up the Zotero software, choose Preferences from the Edit menu. Click on the Sync tab and enter your username and password and click on Ok. **Portability issues: As of October 2024, Zotero has no portable version of their software. Using the full version on a thumb drive is possible but has two issues: 1) citations you download will save to the host computer's hard drive instead of to your thumb drive and 2) you must re-enter your account information and re-sync each time you move the thumb drive to a new computer. If using the full version on a thumb drive always login and sync each time so data will not be lost. An independently-developed portable version of Zotero is available at GitHub and PortableApps. It solves the data storage and account login/sync issues but new versions aren't automatically downloaded. You will need to check for and manually install them. . |