Reference:PRIMARY SOURCES IN HISTORY

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PRIMARY HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

For Primary sources in history (diaries, letters, correspondence, speeches, photographs, government reports, newspaper accounts, biographies by acquaintances, any material created contemporary with an historical event), see the following:

SDSU Library Guides

Primary Sources in the History Research Guide

Indians of North America--History--Sources (in the PAC)

Basic Documents of English History (DA 26 B38 Ref)

Documents of American History (by Henry Commager) (E 173 C66 1973 Ref)

Annals of America (E 173 A793 Ref)

Historic Documents(E 839.5 H57 Ref)

Eyewitness History Series (search PAC)

American Decades Primary Sources (E 169.1 A47 Ref.)

Greenwood Guides to Historic Events (see PAC)

Early American Newspapers (microprint) (finding aid available in CPMC)

In the PAC, use the Subject Heading: "(name of country) -- History -- Sources". Also use the subheading or keywords "Personal Narratives" or "Interviews" or "Documentary History." Also try the subject heading or keyword phrase "Oral History."

Ebsco: Input "Essential Documents in American History" into Source field (Also try Primary Search and MAS-Ultra)

SDSU Archives: http://infodome.sdsu.edu/about/depts/spcollections/archives.shtml

National Archives and Records Administration

http://memory.loc.gov/ (Library of Congress American Memory Project)

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/ (Our Documents.gov)

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/ (Duke University Special Collections: Women's History, African-American History, Documentary Photography, Sales & Marketing, Human Rights)

http://historicaltextarchive.com/ (Historical Text Archive)

http://www.cdlib.org/ (California Digital Library: Mark Twain Project and California History)

http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/ (A Chronology of US Historical Documents)

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ (Making of America -- Cornell)

http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ (Making of America -- University of Michigan)

http://www.americanjourneys.org/ (Eyewitness accounts of early American exploration and settlement)

http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/ (Foreign relations of the U.S. facsimile documents) (also see http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/ ).

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ (Documents in law, history, and diplomacy)

http://www.inthefirstperson.com/ (Alexander Street Press: letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives)

Librarians Index to the Internet on Historical Primary Sources

Some history databases, such as JSTOR and America: History and Life, may contain primary sources.

Also see History of Advertising and Autobiographies and Treaties and Constitutions and Speeches

MS 4/06; rev. LW 5/09

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