Plagiarism

• Plagiarism and Historical Journals (November 2007)
• Plagiarism: Curricular Materials for History Instructors (2007)
• How to Detect and Demonstrate Plagiarism (2006)
• The Professional Division is charged with "developing additional advisory materials to assist historians in navigating the professional opportunities, challenges, and dilemmas they encounter in their work"

Research Standards & Guidelines

• Best Practices for Oral History, Oral History Association (January 2011)
• AHA Statement on IRBs and Oral History Research (February 2008)
• Suggested Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Media Activities in Tenure, Review, and Promotion (October 2001)
• "Best Practices": Encouraging Research Excellence in Postsecondary History Education (October 2000)
• Redefining Historical Scholarship (December 1993)

Perspectives Articles on Historical Research and the Historical Profession

• The National Archives: Issues for Historians by John W. Carlin
• History, Memory, Research, and the Schools: A Report on the Pittsburgh Conference by Peter Seixas, Peter Stearns, and Sam Wineburg
• Coming In from the Cold by David Wolff
• Grierson Scholarships and the "Agents of Social Change Project": New Research Opportunities in Women's History by Margaret Jessup and Marla R. Miller
• Beyond Words: Reviewing Motion Pictures by Mark Carnes
• Moscow's Archives and the New History of the Communist Party of the United States by Randi Storch
• "Out of the Rubble": Building a Contemporary History Archive—The Oklahoma City National Memorial Archives by Carol Brown
• Considering Research in Film and Television Archives? by Douglas Gomery
• The Price of the Past: Preserving the Freedmen's Bureau Papers by Kate Masur

Links to Sites with Related Information

• The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
  The National Archives preserves American history and oversees the management of all federal records. Its website is a necessary first step for any researcher hoping to access its records.
• Library of Congress
  The Library of Congress serves research needs with its 22 reading rooms on Capitol Hill and this excellent website.
• The Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
  The CRLCATALOG includes location, circulation and order information for CRL library materials.
• UCLA Film and Television Archive's Research & Study Center
  The UCLA Film and Television Archive contains over 220,000 films and television programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage.
• Smithsonian Institution
  The Smithsonian website provides a wealth of information to researchers.
• National Genealogical Society and Family Search
  Those interested in genealogical research may want to access these websites.