A special message for students:
Thank you for visiting America's Historic Lakes.
Used properly and with a variety of other reputable sources, this site can be quite useful to you in your studies.
Many have found it to be a helpful first-stop in their research. We have
worked very hard to make sure that the material you find on this site is
accurate and that all sources are properly attributed. Please
remember that your teacher, advisor, or professor will expect you to use the
material found here responsibly.
All material published on this web site
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You may print one copy of selected pages for personal use, and any and all pages
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authors are more than happy to allow the use of their work for educational
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They DO require that you ask for the use of their materials. Remember, copying
and using the work of others with the intent of passing that work off as your
own is plagiarism, more simply put it is stealing.
Some good sources of information on how to
properly cite or attribute online sources are:
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite7.html (Bedford/St. Martins)
http://academics.smcvt.edu/sburks/citing_internet.htm (Steve Burks: Library
and Information Services, Saint Michael's College)
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/lis/lib/guides_and_tutorials/style_citation_guides/
(Middlebury College Library)
You can also see how America's Historic Lakes has
credited online sources using the Chicago Style preferred by researchers
in history/ the humanities by looking at the footnotes here:
http://www.historiclakes.org/crab/crab1.htm
and here:
http://www.historiclakes.org/explore/Montgomery2.html .
You might also want to refer to our
'Frequently Asked Questions' (FAQ) for more information-
http://www.historiclakes.org/faq.htm .
Enjoy the material here, make good use of it, but
do so properly. Good luck on that paper!
Thank you.
Jim Millard
America's Historic Lakes
webmaster2@historiclakes.org
