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HISE/WGS 3240: Boys to Men: European Masculinities (Harder) Fall 2024 3240-01

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, SERMONS, SPEECHES, LAW AND LEGISLATION.

 

Look for primary sources referenced in secondary and tertiary sources.  Use textbooks, class, and library bibliographies for recommended titles of primary sources.  

Collections of Primary Sources in Print and Electronic Form

Archives of Sexuality and Gender                                                                                        Under Databases on library website

Defining Gender (1450-1910)                                                                                               Under Databases on library website

How They Lived:  An Annotated                                                                                           Ref CB 69.2 C56 2016

     Tour of Daily Life Through History in Primary Sources

Milestone Documents in World History v. 1 & 2                                                                Ref D5 M55 2009

The Times (London) Digital Archive, 1785-2019                                                                       Under Databases on library website

Nexis Uni                                                                                                                                                 Under Databases on library website

     Includes selection of full-text articles from newspapers across the world and secondary sources in scholarly journals and                                         popular magazines.                                                

Victorian Popular Culture                                                                                                      Under Databases on library website

Voices of Victorian England                                                                                                   Ref DA 550 V65 2014

     Includes the full text of primary sources about popular entertainment in America and Europe from 1779 to 1930.

Recommended Websites

Each of the following contains the full text of selected books in online form.  Enter the following titles in a Google search to locate references to and selected full text of e-books and other sources.

Google Books (The electronic reproduction of print books can be uneven in quality.)

HathiTrust (available on the library website in the A-Z list)

Project Gutenberg                                                                                                                                 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/