Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activityTreasure Troves from the Past
A visit with Steven Watts, Professor, History
Choosing Topics and Gathering Data
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Selecting history research projects, according to Watts, is a combination of careful assessment and serendipity. For this historian, gathering data is sometimes like hunting for treasure. Watts has had a string of good luck, as it turns out, since Henry Ford, Walt Disney, and Hugh Hefner all compiled archives through which Watts was allowed to dig.