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Primary Sources

Primary sources are original records created during the time under study. Since they were created at that time they offer an inside first-hand view of a particular event unfiltered by interpretation or evaluation.

Some examples:

     Letters                Manuscripts
     Newspapers         Memoirs
     Interviews            Speeches
     Photographs   Diaries

Primary Sources on the Web: Finding, Evaluating, Using
A guide to using, finding, and evaluating primary sources, from the American Library Association (ALA).

Scholarly vs Popular Periodicals

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Determining Impact

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How to Read a Scholarly Journal Article

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What is a Literature Review?

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Map

17th century map of the world.

Recent books

The Black Reparations Project by William Darity (Editor); A. Kirsten Mullen (Editor); Lucas Hubbard (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) E185.89.R45 B53 2023
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]

This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations.
The Spingarn Brothers by Katherine Reynolds Chaddock
Call Number: (RH) E185.98.A1 C45 2023
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.

An absorbing account of how two Jewish brothers devoted themselves to the struggle for racial equality in the United States.
Culture by Martin Pichner (Contribution by)
Call Number: (RH, LC) CB69 .P83 2023
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]

What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"--the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy.
Combating the Hydra by Stephan Steiner
Call Number: (RH) DB80 .S745 2023
West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2023]

Combating the Hydra explores structural as well as occasion-specific state violence committed by the early modern Habsburg Empire.
"the Amazing Iroquois" and the Invention of the Empire State by John C. Winters
Call Number: (RH) E99.I7 W568 2023
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023

In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and democratic culture.