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Historical Research

by Annie
(Calgary, AB)

At the back of Madame Zee you say you did a lot of historical research, some of it on the internet. Is there someplace online to look for information about an era?

ANSWER

Hi Annie. Unfortunately there is no one place to do historical research, but there are plenty of good resources online. You can find a lot of them on the Writing Resources page, listed under Research.

One site I haven't listed yet (will as soon as I get a minute!) is the American Cultural History web site. I used that a lot when I was doing historical research for Madame Zee. American Cultural History

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