LibGuides at USA: HY 442: Research Seminar in European History: Primary Sources

Primary Sources

A guide to understanding and finding primary sources at the USA Marx Library can be found here.

Print

Concept of Empire: Burke to Attlee, 1774-1947
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks DA 42 .B75 bk. 6 1962
Early Letters by Victoria
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks DA 552 .E3 1963
English Historical Documents
Call Number: University Library Reference DA 26 .E56

Library has volumes 1-5; 8-11; 12, pt. 1-2
v.8. 1660-1714.
v.9. American colonial documents to 1776.
v.10. 1714-1783.
v.11. 1783-1832.
v.12. pt.1. 1833-1874;pt.2. 1874-1914.
English Historical Documents, 1906-1939: A Selection
Call Number: University Library Reference DA 576 .B45
Invisible Immigrants: The Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks E184.B7 E74 1990
Monarch of All I Survey : Bechuanaland Diaries, 1929-37
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks DT 795 .R49 A3 1988
Parliament and Politics in the Age of Churchill and Attlee: the Headlam Diaries, 1935-1951
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks DA 20 .R914 v. 14
Parliamentary Diaries of Sir John Trelawny, 1858-1865
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks DA 20 .R913 v. 40
Shoulder to Shoulder : A Documentary
Call Number: University Library Circulation Desk, 7 Day Library Reserve JN 979 .S5 1975
Sources of English Constitutional History: A Selection of Documents from A.D. 600 to the Present
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks JN 111 .S67
They Saw It Happen; an Anthology of Eyewitness’s Accounts of Events in British History, 1689-1897
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks DA 300 .C43
War Memoirs of David Lloyd George
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks D 546 .L5 1982
Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History: Documents and Essays
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks JV 6450 .M36 1998

Electronic

American Journeys
Contains eyewitness accounts of Early American exploration and settlement, ranging from Viking accounts from AD1000 to Rocky Mountain settlers' memoirs of the 1800s. Among the 18000 pages of accounts, there is a significant amount of material concerning the Southeast.
American Memory
Drawing on the collections of the Library of Congress, this database provides access to more than 7 million digital items related to the history and culture of the United States
Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
British History Online
British Library Online Gallery
European History Primary Sources
Internet Library of Early Journals
Making of America- Cornell University
A digital library of primary sources with 19th century imprints in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction hosted by Cornell University and University of Michigan. The Cornell site provides access to 109 monographs and 22 journals from between 1840 and 1900
Official Document System of the United Nations
Penny Magazine
Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

Making of America
Primary sources - approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.