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PeliCAT is the online catalog of the Katharine Brush Library.

Welcome to the World History Research Modules. Module 2 provides two sections:

• Pre-Class Assignment
• In-Class Assignment

Goals of Module 2:

• Understand the traits of secondary sources, including books and periodical literature
• How to perform keyword and subject searching
• How to search and use the PeliCAT library catalog
• How to search and use EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)
• Understand the traits of good source annotations

The images ““Chinese generals in Pyongyang surrender to the Japanese, October 1894”, “First Japanese Embassy to Europe. Nadar, 1862," and "The Boxers bombarded Tianjin in June 1900” are from Wiki Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/). There are no known restrictions on these images.