Find Primary Sources in Our Library Catalog
Use the Libraries' WorldCat catalog (the main search box on the library homepage) to find primary sources. Just type in your usual search terms and add one of the terms listed below!
- Sources
- Personal narratives
- Diaries
- Correspondence
- Interviews
- Autobiography
- Memoirs
- Description and travel
- Pictorial works
Find Primary Sources Online
Primary sources are increasingly available online as historical societies, museums, and other organizations digitize their primary source collections. Try adding the terms below to your online search:
- "primary sources"
- interview
- "oral history"
- "digital library"
Online Primary Resources
- Artstor This link opens in a new window
Repository of digital images and related data as well as tools to actively use those images. Note: In order to download or save images, register for a login with your campus email address. You can also share with other users.
- British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive range of national, regional, and local newspapers in Victorian Britain, in partnership with the British Library.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new window
Books, pamphlets, essays, and broadsides published during the 18th century (1701-1800).
- Empire Online This link opens in a new windowBrings together manuscript, printed, and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices, and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps, and an interactive chronology.
- The Times Digital Archive, 1785-current (5-year embargo) This link opens in a new windowPublished in London, The Times is one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage.
- The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive This link opens in a new windowFull text of The Times Literary Supplement (TLS), published in London, from 1902-2013.
- europeana collectionsExplore 58,504,107 artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives
- French Revolution Images: Iconography from the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de FranceFrench Revolution Digital Archive (Stanford University and Bibliotheque Nationale de France) The 5,126 images selected for this digital archive concentrate solely on the period from 1787 through 1799, from the years immediately preceding the outbreak of the Revolution through the emergence of Napoleon.
- French Revolution SongsSongs from the Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution site
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