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Briefly: published scholarly sources from academic presses should be used. Historical research involves the collection of original or “primary” documents (the job of libraries and archives), the close reading of the documents, and their interpretation in terms of larger historical issues.
Scholarly sources and high-quality non-scholarly sources are generally better than news reports for academic topics (see § Scholarship, above). Press releases from organizations or journals are often used by newspapers with minimal change; such sources are churnalism and should not be treated differently than the underlying press release.
Examples of self-published sources. Almost all websites except for those published by traditional publishers (such as news media organizations), including: Blogs; Web forums; Wikis; Social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and LinkedIn; Sites with user-generated content, including YouTube, Tik Tok, and Find A Grave
Sources that are reliable for some material are not reliable for other material. For instance, otherwise unreliable self-published sources are usually acceptable to support uncontroversial information about the source's author. You should always try to use the best possible source, particularly when writing about living people.
Scholarly books typically have a page or more of acknowledgments naming the people who assisted in finding, and evaluating sources, and helping the author avoid mistakes. Editors give a high priority to ensuring that the authors have dealt with the current standard scholarly historiography on the topic.
What else has the author published? A number of scholarly works. His article lists some of them. He's written a textbook and a few other books. Judging just by the titles these look to be high-end general-interest books for the educated layman. Is the author, or this work, cited in other reliable sources? In academic works? Yes, some.
This page in a nutshell: Cite reviews, don't write them. Appropriate sources for discussing the natural sciences include comprehensive reviews in independent, reliable published sources, such as recent peer reviewed articles in reputable scientific journals, statements and reports from reputable expert bodies, widely recognized standard textbooks written by experts in a field, or standard ...