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Finding Primary Sources

Websites

  • Making of America - is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
  • AP Images - "is the world's largest collection of historical and contemporary photos." Source: AP Images website.
  • Smithsonian Institution Archives - Explores all 54,137 records that document the Smithsonian's people, events, buildings, exhibits, and research.
  • HST 4980 library course page by Professor Daniel has a remarkable list of primary resources.

Finding Primary Sources using Library OneSearch

Using Library OneSearch you find important primary sources that have been reprinted in books. The following words searched as a subject can be entered in Library OneSearch along with your topic. For example, the search "civil war" and personal narratives will find items from the civil war that contain personal narratives.

--Sources --Photography
--Personal Narratives --Interviews
--Correspondence --Sermons
--Diaries --Songs and music
--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. --Facsimiles
--Records and correspondence --Manuscripts

 

 

 

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