AM
Demos Pricing

Boosting student success: leveraging historical sources for non-history majors

How can you help students uncover the full potential of primary sources to enhance their research and critical thinking skills?

A comprehensive AM survey revealed 46% of librarians and teaching staff felt students had limited understanding of primary sources at the start of their course. So what can librarians and faculty do?

Join AM's Emily Stallworthy to consider how engaging with primary sources can create a more enriching, and dynamic educational experience across all majors. Emily will showcase learning resources from our AM Research Skills series, designed to develop the key information literacy and critical thinking skills needed for student success.


Please complete the form to watch on demand

Recent posts

Students work at desks and laptops in a university library study area, with bookshelves and academic materials visible in the background.
Reimagining Primary Sources: Advancing multidisciplinary scholarship

Thursday 1 October | 9am PT | 12pm ET | 5pm BST

AM’s second virtual primary sources symposium shares best practice from across the academic community around balancing innovation with critical enquiry and reimagining the role of primary sources in multidisciplinary scholarship.

A library interior with tall windows, long wooden tables, and people studying.
The student perspective: Developing research skills using digital primary sources

Speaking at AM's Reimagining Primary Sources symposium, Lewis Goode, University of Bristol graduate, and Foster Duckworth, University of North Carolina, Charlotte graduate, share perspectives on the skills developed through digital primary source research and their application beyond undergraduate study.