One of the key steps for any historian is to know the author. This goes for primary and secondary sources, and especially modern works. In the case of the latter, it can be difficult, because most authors do not provide autobiographies in their works.

Students who are interested in military history will immediately benefit from joining the Society for Military History, which is approaching its 90th anniversary.

We are in the midst of the sesquicentennial for the American Civil War. For each of these events, the National Park Service has done a remarkable job at chronicling the events through social media.

While the custom of honoring ancestors by visiting and decorating graves is an ancient and worldwide tradition, in the United States Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the Armed Forces.

If you are a medievalist, then you should be a member of De Re Militari, the Society for Medieval Military History.

As part of West Point’s Officer Professional Reading List (.doc), they include the Top Ten Military Classics. Any aspiring student in the history of warfare should read these classics.

Our scrutiny as historians must remain high at all times, even when the source is in another language, but especially when the source tells a new, intriguing story that we only dreamed of being true.

Every historian and every editor should know Stephanie Harvey’s name. Regardless of your field of interest, historians have to be on the lookout for deceptively legitimate claims, especially when we want them to be true.

Any student of medieval history should be immediately aware of the British Library’s efforts to digitize roughly 25,000 medieval manuscripts. This effort is bringing about a golden age of access to source material for medievalists.