HIST 151: Primary Sources
What is a primary source?
Online places to find Primary Sources
- Internet Ancient History SourcebookA vast resource of collections of primary sources from around the world. It includes items from history up to the reformation.
- Perseus Digital LibraryA collection of promary documents throughout time. Although the speciality is the ancient world, they have an extensive collection of 19th century american documents.
- EuroDocs: History of Prehistoric and Ancient EuropeA collection of links, portals and documents specializing in the ancient world.
- Eyewitness to History : Ancient WorldProduced by educational Publisher - Ibis Communications, this website presents a series of links of first person accounts to events in the ancient world. Use the references at the bottom to find primary sources.
- Avalon Project at Yale UniversityCollects important artifacts with a specialization on law, politics, and history. Contains full text links to treaties, speeches, laws, hearings, accords, etc...
- Internet Sacred Texts ArchiveThe original texts (mostly with english translations) of the world's religions throughout history.
- Internet Classics ArchiveA collection of 441 classic texts of the ancient world.
- Map CollectionsA collection of historical maps from the Library of Congress. See maps of the railroads, national parks, boundaries, and wartime.
- EuroDocs: History of Prehistoric and Ancient EuropeA collection of links, portals and documents specializing in the ancient world.
- History MattersA searchable (and clickable) gateway to various archives of primary sources. This will tell you where to find primary sources.
- HathiTrustAn online collection of books and other items curated and collected by academic institutions around the world.