Primary Resources
- Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new windowLiterary guide to significant sources on a variety of subjects. Works as an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.
- Sabin AmericanaBooks, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, through the early 1900s. Original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions, etc. 1500-1926
- EEBO - Early English Books Online This link opens in a new windowDigital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in English from 1473-1700.
- Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO)English and foreign-language titles printed inthe UK and works from the Americas from 1701-1800.
- Making of the Modern World This link opens in a new windowDigital facsimile images of unique primary sources that track the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth. History, political science, social conditions, technology and industry, economics, area studies, etc.
- New Iberian World: A Documentary History of the Discovery and Settlement of Latin America to the early 17th centuryAvailable at the Central Library, F1411 .I18 1984 Armistead 4th floor.
- Colonial America This link opens in a new windowManuscript material from the Colonial Office files at the UK National Archives that documents all aspects of life in colonial America. Includes original correspondence between the British government and the governments of the American colonies.
Latin American Travelogues
The goal of this project is to create a digital collection of Latin American travel accounts written in the 16th-19th centuries. The works selected are linked to critical essays produced by undergraduate students who are enrolled in Prof. Green's courses on Latin American history. This site will serve as a free-access visual and research tool for students and scholars alike.
Finding Primary Sources on Library Catalog
- Go to Advanced Search in the online catalog
- enter the keyword sources or personal narratives or diaries
- enter terms related to your topic
- Find Subject Headings in the "details" of relevant books related to your topic that include words such as "sources, "personal narratives," "pictorial," or "diaries". Click on those headings for more books on that topic.
