History 107:  Modern Europe

Finding Primary Sources

1.  Search the Library Catalog to find primary sources in the SMC Library.  Put in the topic you are interested in along with one of the following terms:

  • personal narratives
  • autobiography
  • correspondence
  • diaries
  • documentary history
  • sources

To find books at other libraries, search WorldCat or Google Book Search

2.  Search for newspaper or magazine articles by reporters who were eye witnesses to key events

Historical Newspapers (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post)

Reader's Guide Retrospective (Magazines from 1890 to 1982)

3.  Search Internet Sites for Primary Sources:

General

Modern History Sourcebook

EuroDocs

Project Gutenberg

Victorian Britain

Victorian Web

Charles Booth Online Archive

World Wars

World War I Document Archive

First World War

Imperial War Museum

Peace and War in the 20th Century

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

 

This page is maintained by John Payne