{"id":2,"date":"2022-03-13T14:29:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2023-10-10T06:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T06:37:34","slug":"professional-historical-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/index.php\/professional-historical-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding professional historical research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>If you&#8217;re a history blogger or Youtuber, you&#8217;ll know that locating professional historical research is a difficult and time consuming task. Finding reliable, up to date scholarly sources on a given historical topic is a serious challenge. I&#8217;ve collected a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/index.php\/research-sources-freely-accessible-online-material\/\" title=\"freely available primary and secondary sources\">freely available primary and secondary sources<\/a> for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s no wonder that many history Youtube videos are only 10-15 minutes long, present superficial pop-history treatments of their subject, and don&#8217;t list their sources. This is how you end up being roasted by commenters on your own videos, or featured on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/badhistory\/\">r\/badhistory<\/a> as an object of ridicule.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wikipedia-Emblem-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"this is not professional historical research\" class=\"wp-image-89\" style=\"width:262px;height:147px\" width=\"262\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wikipedia-Emblem-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wikipedia-Emblem-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wikipedia-Emblem-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wikipedia-Emblem-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wikipedia-Emblem-1-2048x1152.png 2048w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wikipedia-Emblem-1-2000x1125.png 2000w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wikipedia-Emblem-1-600x338.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>history Youtuber comfort zone<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/badhistory-1024x228.png\" alt=\"you'll find serious professional historical research here\" class=\"wp-image-96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/badhistory-1024x228.png 1024w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/badhistory-300x67.png 300w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/badhistory-768x171.png 768w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/badhistory-600x133.png 600w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/badhistory.png 1178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>where bad history Youtube channels are cremated<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>If you want to do proper research using reliable academic sources, you can save yourself a lot of time and effort by consulting the bibliographies of scholarly literature I have curated <a href=\"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/index.php\/research-sources-freely-accessible-online-material\/#scholarly_bibliographies\" title=\"\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need help with research for your videos or blog posts, <a href=\"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/index.php\/contact\/\">contact me directly<\/a>. I&#8217;ve previously worked as a university research assistant, and I have an excellent reputation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/badhistory\/\">r\/badhistory<\/a>, as shown by this image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bad-history-performance-828x1024.png\" alt=\"I'm a well respected regular contributor to r\/badhistory\" class=\"wp-image-112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bad-history-performance-828x1024.png 828w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bad-history-performance-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bad-history-performance-768x950.png 768w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bad-history-performance-600x742.png 600w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bad-history-performance.png 833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>I&#8217;ve won numerous awards at r\/badhistory<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/index.php\/contact\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/online-research-2.webp\" alt=\"I can find professional historical research for you\" class=\"wp-image-111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/online-research-2.webp 900w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/online-research-2-300x217.webp 300w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/online-research-2-768x555.webp 768w, https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/online-research-2-600x433.webp 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>I&#8217;m available as a research assistant<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a history blogger or Youtuber, you&#8217;ll know that locating professional historical research is a difficult and time consuming task. Finding reliable, up to date scholarly sources on a given historical topic is a serious challenge. I&#8217;ve collected a list of freely available primary and secondary sources for this. It&#8217;s no wonder that many &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/index.php\/professional-historical-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Understanding professional historical research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.5.2 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Curated bibliographies of peer reviewed scholarly literature on a range of historical topics. 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