Hello, I am currently a History Major at my university. I had passed my historical methods class, where we learn to read and write as historians. Due to some financial issues I had to take a semester off, and when I came back to academia I realized that I had forgotten how to find relative information for my research.
I plan on writing a paper,on my free time this break, on the consequences of the Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti case. I am using my university's library e-resources and starting to feel overwhelmed by the amount of secondary sources and resources.
How do you sort all this information to what is relevant to you? What resources do you use to find primary sources?
Any help would be amazing, and I would be grateful.
JSTOR is the one and true research king. You can also use google scholar.
If you happen to be nearby Boston you can drop in at the Harvard Law Library archives, which holds the original transcripts from the trial. I spent a very boring summer some years ago xeroxing a large portion of that collection one page at a time for some distant researcher.