[Research] Create a lesson on working with newspapers/periodicals

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How to use newspapers and periodicals in your research

Here are some key questions for a lessons about working with newspapers/periodicals?

• What questions are newspapers/periodicals good at answering?
• How do you find newspapers/periodicals?
• How to read newspapers/periodicals?
• How to use newspapers/periodicals to make an argument about the past?

Additional topics that this lesson could include:

• A short history of newspapers in Baltimore and Maryland
• An explanation of how newspapers can serve as a primary or a secondary source
• An explanation of how digital databases of periodicals work

I've already put together one resource for an expanded lesson on this topic: a timeline view of Digitized Baltimore Newspapers.

Related Resources

• University of Maryland: Historic Maryland Newspapers Project
• Maryland Online Historical Newspapers
• Learning to do Historical Research: Prowling the Periodicals