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Primary Sources

How to find print and digital primary sources in the library and on the web.

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US History

Defining Documents in American History: Exploration & Colonial America by Daisy Martin (Editor)
Call Number: E187 .E96 2013 (and ebook)

ISBN: 1429837012

Publication Date: 2012

Primary sources from Columbus's first voyage to the lead up to the American Revolution (1492-1755).
Defining Documents in American History: The American Revolution by Peter Kratzke (Editor)
Call Number: E203 .A572 2013 (and ebook)

Publication Date: 2012

Primary sources, included major documents, from the from the lead up to the American Revolution through Thomas Jefferson's first term as president (1754-1805).
Defining Documents in American History: Manifest Destiny & The New Nation by Bethany Groff (Editor)
Call Number: E338 .M25 2013 (and ebook)

Publication Date: 2013

Primary sources from the Antebellum era (1803-1859).
The Complete Bill of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins by Neil H. Cogan
Call Number: Reference KF4744 2015

Publication Date: 2015

Traces the development of each clause of each amendment in the Bill of Rights from conception to adoption.
Datapedia of the United States, 1790-2005 by George Thomas Kurian
Call Number: ebook

Publication Date: 2004

Social, economics, and political statistics covering American history.

World History

Defining Documents in World History: The Middle Ages (524-1431 C.E.) by Salem Press
Call Number: D113 .M53 2015 (and ebook)

Publication Date: 2015
Defining Documents in World History: The Ancient World (2700 B.C.E. - c.500 C.E.) by Salem Press
Call Number: D59 .A53 2015 (and ebook)

Publication Date: 2015
Historic Documents by C. Q. Press
Call Number: Reference E839.5 .H57

Publication Date: 1973-

Each volume contains major primary sources for a year in history. Heidelberg has 1972 through the current edition.

Ohio

The Documentary Heritage of Ohio by Phillip R. Shriver; Clarence E. Wunderlin (Editor)
Call Number: F491 .D64 2000

Publication Date: 2001

Primary sources in Ohio's history

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