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Primary Sources

Below are just some of the primary sources available for research. Many more are available at Carnegie Mellon and nearby libraries and archives. If you need help finding primary sources, see History: Databases and Indexes: Archival Resources or ask for assistance at the Hunt Library reference desk.

• African History: Primary Sources
• African American History: Primary Sources
• Asian History: Primary Sources
• Atlantic World: Primary Sources
• Business and Industrial History: Corporate Records
• Environmental History: Primary Sources
• European History: Primary Sources
• Foreign Policy: Primary Sources
• History of Medicine: Primary Sources
• History of Technology and Science: Primary Sources
• General
• Labor and Economic History: Primary Sources
• Latin American and Caribbean History: Primary Sources
• Pittsburgh History: Oral Histories
• Pittsburgh History: Records of Businesses, Individuals, and Organizations
• Social History: Primary Sources
• Urban History: Primary Sources
• Women's History: Primary Sources

Other relevant primary sources may be found at History: Audio Resources, History: Maps and History: Pictorial Resources.

General

• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
  Browse or search public domain documents from American and English literature, including Western philosophy.

• AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History (Lynn Nelson, University of Kansas)
  Documents from the fifteenth century to the present, chronologically arranged.

• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library of Congress)
  Search or browse collections on a wide variety of subjects and in a wide variety of media.

• Commager, Henry Steele and Milton Cantor, eds. Documents of American History. 2 vols. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1988.
  HUNT REF-1 E173 .D59 1988

• Digital Library of Georgia (University System of Georgia)
  Digital full text collections including diaries, photographs, maps, government documents, newspapers, books, etc. relating to the history and culture of state of Georgia.

• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe (Brigham Young University)
  Geographically and chronologically arranged.

• Hanover Historical Texts Project (History Department, Hanover College)
  Public domain texts, chronologically arranged by region.

• History and Historiography (The EServer, Department of Technical Communication, University of Washington)
  Documents and articles from all periods in an alphabetical list.

• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States (Bartleby.com)

• Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Full Text Sources (Paul Halsall, Fordham University)
  Arranged by topic.

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Full Text Sources (Paul Halsall, Fordham University)
  Arranged by topic.

• Levy, Peter B., ed. 100 Key Documents in American Democracy. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
  HUNT REF-1 E173 .A15 1994

• Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  This full text database brings together, on a single cross-searchable platform, the entire family of letter and diary databases from Alexander Street Press:
  North American Women's Letters and Diaries
  British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
  North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
  The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
  Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
  Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society.

• Texts (The American Revolution-an .HTML Project)
  Chronologically arranged.

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