HIST/GWS 334: Sex and Race in the Age of Empire: Primary Sources

Use OneSearch to locate titles with an * next to them. 

Think about:

• Local libraries (public or academic)
• Historical societies
• National libraries

Visit their home pages. Have they digitized materials? If they haven't digitized, have they published Finding Aids (which give you a good sense of what materials are contained in their collections)?

When searching a database of books, whether the catalog or Google Books or WorldCat:

• Keywords to use in searches: diaries / journals / sources / personal narratives / correspondence / letters
• Also, look for these words in subject headings, and follow the subject links.

Library Collections

Database

• Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online
• British & Irish Women's Letters and Diaries

History of Women Collection, on microfilm

• How to use the History of Women Collection

Pamphlets / Newsletters / Newspapers

• See International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) for extensive list of digitization projects
• Example: Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (England), 1806-1890

Books

• Google Books makes most pre-1923 books and magazines available for download.
• HathiTrust partners with research libraries worldwide to make unique collections available to help preserve cultural history. 

Oral histories (usually collected through interviews) are an increasingly popular method to preserve the past. Example: