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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

Using Primary Sources
A guide to using finding and evaluating primary sources from the Reference and User Services Assn. of the American Library Assn.

Map

17th century map of the world.

Recent books

Defining Nature's Limits by Neil Tarrant
Call Number: (RH) BX1723 .T37 2022
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022

A look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post-Reformation era.
The Global Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng
Call Number: (RH) D116 .H464 2021
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

The Global Middle Ages: An Introduction discusses how, when, and why a 'global Middle Ages' was conceptualized; explains and considers the terms that are deployed in studying, teaching, and researching a Global Middle Ages; and critically reflects on the issues that arise in the establishment of this relatively new field of academic endeavor.
A Beautiful Ending by John Jeffries Martin
Call Number: (RH) CB358 .M367 2022
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]

An award-winning historian's revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations
The Architecture of Confinement by Anoma Pieris; Lynne Horiuchi
Call Number: (RH) D805.P16 P57 2022
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022

In this global and comparative study of Pacific War incarceration environments we explore the arc of the Pacific Basin as an archipelagic network of militarized penal sites.
Half American by Matthew F. Delmont
Call Number: (RH) (LC) D810.B53 D45 2022
[New York] : Viking, [2022]
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont "Matthew F. Delmont's book is filled with compelling narratives that outline with nuance, rigor, and complexity how Black Americans fought for this country abroad while simultaneously fighting for their rights here in the United States.