History of Advertising: Get 2-3 Sources for Last Forever

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The discussion centers around finding reliable sources for the history of advertising, specifically over an extensive time period. Participants share links and suggestions for research methods to locate relevant information.

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  • One participant expresses difficulty in finding sources and requests help for information on the history of advertising.
  • Another participant provides a link to a resource from Duke University, suggesting it as a starting point.
  • A repeated request for sources emphasizes the challenge of conducting effective searches online.
  • Suggestions include using specific search techniques on general history sites and expanding searches to related fields like marketing and business history.
  • Multiple links to various resources are shared, including those from the History Channel and Harvard Business School.

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Participants generally agree on the need for reliable sources but do not reach a consensus on specific sources or methods, indicating multiple approaches to the search for information.

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I apparently am lame at googling things, so I'm wondering:

Where can I get 2 or 3 good sources of information about the history of Advertising, over the period of the last Forever or so.

Thank you in advance! ^-^
 
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Advertising started off very low-key :

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I would start by finding some good, fairly large general history sites and searching them. (If you prefer to use google, just include in your query the history site that you want to search using "site:www.site.com". For example: "site:www.historychannel.com[/url] advertising") This turned up [PLAIN]http://www.historychannel.com/thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=200292 .

You might also want to expand your searches to marketing and even the history of business. Doing this turned up, e.g., http://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/index.html. Check out especially http://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/related.html. Also, searching http://search.hbs.edu:8765/ for "advertising" returned what, at a glance, looked like lots of goodies.

You might want to start at http://www.besthistorysites.net/
 
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