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HISE 4600: Historiographic Seminar (Unangst) Spring 2024, 4600-01

Librarian: Dr. Mary Lynn Bensen

Finding Primary Sources

When searching print and online access tools, use search terms such as SOURCES, CORRESPONDENCE, PERSONAL NARRATIVES, DIARIES, RECORDS AND CORRESPONDENCE, SERMONS, SPEECHES, PAPERS.

Look for titles of primary sources in secondary sources and in lists included in bibliographies of secondary sources. Use text, class, and library bibliographies for recommended titles or listings of primary sources.

Selected Sources

Some titles only list sources, whereas others include the text of sources.

A Documentary History of England                                                                                       DA 26 D55 (on reserve)

Annals of America 1493—1754                                                                                             Ref E 173 A795 v. 1

English Historical Documents, 1783-1832                                                                            DA 26 E55 (Circulating Coll.)

English Historical Documents, 1833-1874

English Historical Documents, 1874-1914

English Historical Documents v. 1 & 2                                                                                   DA 26 E55 (on reserve)

Latin America and the Caribbean:                                                                                         Ref F 1408 L3225 1992

Nexis Uni

Full text of The Times (London) 1985-                                                                     Under Databases on library website

19th-Century British Pamphlets (in JSTOR)                                                                            Under Databases on library website

Readings in English History                                                                                                      DA 32 C54 (Circulating Coll.)

Source-Book of English History                                                                                                DA 32.5 L5 (Circulating Coll.)

Times Digital Archive                                                                                                                Under Databases on library website

Full text of The Times (London) 1785-2014

 Victorian Popular Culture                                                                                                       Under Databases on library website

Decolonization:  The Politics & Independence                                                                           Under Databases on library website

    In former Colonial & Commonwealth Territories

Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies                                                                                         Under Databases on library website

   (in Archives Unbound)

Latin American & Caribbean Studies                                                                                           Under Databases on library website

   (in Archives Unbound)