Research Guides: Primary Sources: Find Books

Finding Books with Primary Sources

You may pair an appropriate subject heading with additional subject terms that identify materials as primary sources. Some of these terms are:

correspondence
diaries
early works to 1800
interviews
pamphlets
periodicals
personal narratives
sources
speeches

For example

Women AND suffrage AND diaries
Abraham Lincoln AND speeches
California Gold Rush AND sources

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Print Books - examples

Immigration and Multiculturalism by K. Lee Lerner; Brenda Wilmoth Lerner; Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner
Call Number: JV6465 .I4737 2006
ISBN: 9781414403298
Publication Date: 2006-11-20
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America and the World - A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror by Jeffrey A. Engel (Editor); Mark Atwood Lawrence (Editor); Andrew Preston (Editor)
Call Number: E744 .A4857 2014
ISBN: 9780691133355
Publication Date: 2014-04-13
Landmark Speeches of the American Conservative Movement by Peter Schweizer (Editor); Wynton C. Hall (Editor)
Call Number: JC573.2.U6 L36 2007
ISBN: 9781585445844
Publication Date: 2007-03-27
The American Nation by Bruce Frohnen (Editor)
Call Number: E173 .A747 2008
ISBN: 9780865977297
Publication Date: 2009-04-30
Government, Politics, and Protest by K. Lee Lerner (Editor); Brenda Wilmoth Lerner (Editor); Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner (Editor)
Call Number: HN13 .G68 2006
ISBN: 9781414403274
Publication Date: 2006-10-30

e-Books - examples

Voices of the U. S. Latino Experience by Rodolfo F. Acuna (Editor); Guadalupe Compean (Editor)
ISBN: 9780313087837
Publication Date: 2008-11-01
This book provides more than 400 crucial primary documents from and concerning the major Latino groups in the United States. Sources include letters, memoirs, speeches, articles, essays, interviews, treaties, government reports and testimony.
American Decades Primary Sources by Cynthia Rose (Editor)
ISBN: 9780787665876
Publication Date: 2003-12-05
Each volume includes approximately 165 full-text or excerpted historical documents from the period representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from the decade. These documents include advertisements, commercials, diaries, literary works, newspaper articles, memoirs, periodical articles, speeches and other types of primary source materials.
Terrorism by K. Lee Lerner
ISBN: 9781414406213
Publication Date: 2005-11-11
This book contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art.
Gender Issues and Sexuality by Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner (Editor)
ISBN: 9781414403250
Publication Date: 2006-08-25
This title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context.
A Documentary History of the American Civil War Era by Thomas C. Mackey (Editor)
ISBN: 9781621900405
Publication Date: 2014-10-17
"A Documentary History of the American Civil War Era" is the first comprehensive collection of public policy actions, political speeches, and judicial decisions related to the American Civil War. Collectively, the four volumes in this series give scholars, teachers, and students easy access to the full texts of the most important, fundamental documents as well as hard to- find, rarely published primary sources on this critical period in U.S. history.