Writing Upper Level History Papers

A general guide for writing a book review on a scholarly monograph. If you have never written one before, this is a good starting point to get a better understanding of what the professor will be looking for in your book review of a scholarly monograph.

This is a good source on writing a literature review for an upper level history course, as there are different requirements than a typical English review for a literary source. This source also goes over methods of organizing your literature review that will be helpful in starting to write your paper.

This is the official Chicago Manual Style website and an excellent resource on how to cite your sources using the Chicago Manual Style which is a requirement for all upper level history courses.

This website includes title page guidelines, supplemental turabian style guidelines, how to write titles of work in the body paragraph, how to format your bibliography page and how to format footnotes.