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Lisa Gold
I am a freelance researcher, fact-checker, writer, editor, and rare book expert. I have an unusual and eclectic range of knowledge, skills, and experience.
I do creative research for writers of fiction and nonfiction. I teach classes and speak about research and fact-checking.
I offer research, fact-checking, content development, social media, and editorial services. Contact me for details.
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Lisa's posts on the Bauman Rare Books Blog
- American Ephemera series (pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers of the American Revolution)
- Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
- Books the Founders Read series
- Forgotten Founders series (George Mason, John Dickinson, Thomas Paine)
- Rare 19th-Century Children's Books
- Rare 20th-Century Children's Books
- Rare Books as Gifts
- Rare Books by 20th-century Leaders
- Rare Books on Economics
- We Read Banned Books
- William Blake's "Visionary Heads"
Lisa's reviews for the Seattle Review of Books
Matt Ruff (my husband)
Sites I like: Fact-Checking & Journalism
- ACES' 10 fact-checking tips for copy-editors
- Based on a True True Story (Information is Beautiful breakdown of films)
- Bissinger's "Shattered Glass"
- Borel's book, The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking
- Buttrey's Accuracy Checklist
- Buttry's tips on verifying facts and ensuring accuracy
- Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning for the Digital Age
- Canby's "Fact-Checking at The New Yorker"
- Caulfield's Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
- CJR investigative report on the Rolling Stone UVA rape article
- Cognitive bias cheat sheet
- Cognitive biases that screw up your decisions
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Covering Medical Research
- CUNY Accuracy Checklist for Reporters
- FactCheck.org
- Fee's 44 tips for greater accuracy
- HealthNewsReview
- Journalist's Resource
- Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics
- McClelland's "An Ode to Fact-Checking"
- My Twitter list on Fact-checking
- PolitiFact
- Poynter Online
- Poynter's must-reads for fact-checkers
- Quote Investigator
- Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science
- SciCheck
- Shin's 7 ways to make your work easy to fact-check
- Smith's book, The Fact-Checker's Bible
- Snopes.com Urban Legends
- SPJ's Journalist's Toolbox
- The Curious Journalist's Guide to Data
- The Guardian's 9-point guide to spotting a dodgy statistic
- The Upshot (New York Times)
- Today's Front Pages
- Verification Handbook
- What are the Odds? Reporting on Risk
- YouthRadio's intro to fact-checking for journalists
Sites I Like: Libraries & Research
- 250+ Digital Libraries & Archives
- AAS exhibition: The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1865
- AcademicInfo Online Subject Guides
- ALA's Best Free Reference Websites Index
- AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
- American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution, 1774-1776
- American Journeys
- American Rhetoric
- ArchiveGrid
- Avalon Project–Documents in Law & History
- Best of History Web Sites
- British History Online
- Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers at the LOC
- CIA World Factbook
- Collage: The London Picture Archive
- Corpus of Historical American English
- Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
- Declaration Resources Project
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Digital Collections in Performing Arts
- Digital History
- Digital Primary Sources from American Historical Review
- Digital Public Library of America
- Digitized Diary Index
- Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
- Early English Books Online
- Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker
- Emily Dickinson Archive
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian
- English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
- Europeana
- Food Timeline
- Footnote
- Founders Online
- Getty Provenance Index Databases
- Global Price & Income History
- Google Advanced Search
- Google Book Search
- Google Ngram Viewer
- Graphics Atlas
- Green's Dictionary of Slang
- Harry Ransom Center Digital Collections
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- Hindsight resources list
- Historical Blogs: Fiction & Fact
- Historical Currency Converter
- Historical Text Archive
- Historical Thesaurus of English
- Historical Voices
- History On-line
- Holocaust Resources on the Web
- How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
- Images from Libraries & Museums
- In the Library with the Lead Pipe
- Internet Archive
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project
- Journal of the American Revolution
- Legacy Libraries at LibraryThing
- LibGuides
- Librarian and Information Science News
- Library & Archival Exhibitions on the Web
- Library of Congress Bibliographies, Research Guides & Finding Aids
- Library of Congress Digital Collections
- Locating London's Past
- London Picture Map
- Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America
- Martindale's Reference Desk
- Measuring Worth
- My Twitter list on Research & Libraries
- National Museum of Play Online Collections
- National Science Digital Library
- New York City History: NYPL Best of the Web
- Old Book Illustrations
- Old Maps Online
- Open Culture
- Open Library search inside the books
- Oral History Centers and Collections
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Paleo-Future
- Past is Present
- Primary Sources at Yale
- Project Gutenberg
- Provenance Online Project
- Rag Linen
- Research Buzz
- Researching the American Revolution
- Sarah Werner's compendium of resources (digitized First Folios, book history)
- Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
- Seattle Public Library databases
- SFE: Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
- Smithsonian Learning Lab
- The Authentic History Center: Primary Sources from American Popular Culture
- The CITE
- The Collation, Folger Shakespeare Library
- The European Library portal
- The Historiography of the American Revolution: A Timeline
- The History Blog
- The Museum of Online Museums
- The Online Books Page
- The Public Domain Review
- The Reading Experience Database
- The Shelley-Godwin Archive
- The Skyscraper Center
- Unpaywall (legal way to read paywalled research articles for free)
- Victorian Literature & Culture Sites for Online Research
- Voice of the Shuttle
- WATCH: Writers, Artists & Their Copyright Holders
- Wonders & Marvels
- World Digital Library
- WWW-VL History Central Catalogue
Sites I Like: Miscellany
Sites I Like: Publishing & Books
- 100 Best First Lines of Novels
- A list of 43 book lists
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Authors Alliance
- Book Cover Archive
- Brave New World
- GalleyCat
- Guardian Books Blog
- Historical Novel Society
- IndieBound
- Jacket Copy
- Jane Friedman's Writing Advice Archive
- Locus Online
- MobyLives
- Northwest Book Lovers
- Preditors & Editors
- Seattle Review of Books
- SFWA: Writers Beware
- Writing the Other
Sites I Like: Rare Books
- Bauman Rare Books
- Bauman Rare Books Blog
- Book Patrol
- British Library's links to selected digital facsimile sites
- Directory of Web Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger
- List of rare book library blogs
- PhiloBiblos
- Rare Book Room
- Rebecca Romney's Aldine blog
- Resources for the history of books and printing
- The Private Library
Sites I like: Seattle
Sites I Like: Words & Editing
- After Deadline
- AP Stylebook Ask the Editor
- AP vs. Chicago
- Avoiding plagiarism: ORI Guide to Ethical Writing
- Chicago Manual of Style Online Q&A
- CopyEditing
- Editing Tools (from KOK Edit)
- EditTeach
- Identifont
- Johnson blog at the Economist
- Language Hat
- Language Log
- The Subversive Copy Editor Blog
- The Word Detective
- Unsuck It
- Word Spy
- World Wide Words
