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Document Collections
Primary Source Collections
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Collections of reproduced print or digital documents, usually related by topic or place of origin.
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Web Gateways
 EuroDocs
Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations related to European history.
History Matters
Selective gateway to U.S. history web resources. Also includes first-person, primary documents and teaching resources. Searchable by keyword or topic.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit founded in 1996 to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. It includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in its collections.
Labyrinth
Gateway to primary and secondary source material related to medieval studies.
WorldCat
Catalog with more than 60 million records for books and other materials owned by libraries around the world. To limit your search to web sources: (1) enter your search query in the top box; (2) enter "netlibrary" in the box below and change the "and" to its left to "not"; (3) choose the "Internet Resources" box.
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Digital Collections
American Memory
Collection of primary sources relating to the history and culture of the United States from the Library of Congress.
American Presidency Project
Collection of primary documents and other materials relating to U.S. presidents. Includes public papers, addresses, executive orders, and proclamations.
Archive of Americana
Digital collections of books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries.
Avalon Project
Collection of historical documents related to law, economics, politics, diplomacy and government.
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Library Catalog Searches
Use the table below to develop search strings for locating primary source bibliographies and collections in library catalogs. Words in the table and accompanying examples are derived from Library of Congress subject headings. Words enclosed in [ ] must be replaced with specific descriptors (e.g., use american in place of [nationality].
| any topic
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sources or document*
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and
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[ethnic group]
[gender]
history
[location]
[nationality]
[topic]
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| documents by place
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[location] and history and sources
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| domestic politics
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sources and (politics and government)
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and
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[ethnic group]
[gender]
[location]
[topic]
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| foreign affairs
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sources and foreign relations
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and
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[country]
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In ALEX
- Choose the Advanced Search tab.
- Place each phrase or modifier in its own box.
- Change drop-down menu defaults to "all of these words" and "Subject".
- Use a (?) to truncate words.
In WorldCat
- Place each phrase or modifier in its own box.
- Search by Subject for entries from the "Enter this phrase" column.
- Use an (*) to truncate words.
Sample searches:
- document* AND race relations AND united states
- sources AND "politics and government" AND france
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(Reviewed: October 10, 2008)
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