History (General)

The library catalog may be used to find primary sources for your research. To do so, simply pair one of the subject terms listed below with other search terms relevant to your project. For example, if you are interested in the civil right movement, you could search for "Civil Rights" as a keyword and "speeches, addresses, etc." as a subject term. Here is an example of what that search would look like. The following are useful subject terms for finding primary sources:

• archival resources
• archives
• broadsides
• case studies
• correspondence
• diaries
• maps
• newspapers
• personal narratives
• sermons
• sources
• speeches, addresses, etc.