Christian Friedrich Mayr, Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, 1838 North Carolina Museum of Art
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This guide focuses on research strategies and resources for your papers. Use the searches and linked examples as jumping off points for exploration.
The Background page will help in developing your research questions and understanding the broader context for your specific topic. The Primary Sources page offers selected memoirs and histories from the antebellum period by people who sought to improve social conditions. The Journal Articles and Scholarly Books pages give you tools for accessing published scholarship.
