Enhance foundational student skills
Deepen understanding and engagement with primary sources to boost student outcomes
Provide students with the practical tools they need to understand and interact with primary sources.
Offering crucial support for interdisciplinary classes, the learning resources in AM Research Skills can be used in classroom-based and online teaching to enhance student success and foster lifelong critical thinking skills, as well as for extended study.
It sets [students] up for success. It is important new researchers practice the correct things. This platform really gives them the confidence that they are engaging in a sound research process from the beginning. It’s a supportive environment that complements formal teaching, but it’s also suited to independent learning as well.
Learning tools
Peer-reviewed essays, how-to guides and video interviews share core principles and practices for understanding and using primary sources, from critical evaluation to using digital tools.
Case studies
Based on digitised sources, case studies demonstrate how to analyse, approach and interact with primary sources. Learn how subject experts work with specific source types.
Practice sources
Drawn from AM’s archival partners across the globe, hundreds of historical materials enable students to put their primary source literacy skills into practice.
Data sets
These present example cases for working with data in history from the presentation of a data set to understanding how to interrogate, interpret and use the data within.
Empower students with foundational information literacy approaches
Explore methods using relevant source material, develop foundational information literacy and enhanced critical thinking skills, and introduce concepts that underpin research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Applying research skills to non-history majors
Help students to uncover the full potential of digital archives to enhance their critical thinking skills across all majors. Create a more enriching and dynamic educational experience across disciplines with this on demand webinar, illustrated with learning resources from AM Research Skills.
There are many online repositories that contain primary sources, but the fact that AM is providing the additional context students need to use these resources effectively is very exciting.
AM Primary
Essential interdisciplinary content for teaching, learning, and research
AM Archives Direct
Critical geopolitical insights for research across disciplines
AM Scholar
Timeless digitised content for self-directed research