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Primary Sources
A primary source is an original document such as a manuscript, map, letter, journal, treaty, government document, speech, interview, news article, transcript of radio or television broadcast... To locate materials in the Keeley Library, see the section on Finding Your Way Around the Library.
Internet Resources
Library Catalog
To locate items in the library catalog, search in iBistro. You may want to limit your search to search only the Keeley Library, instead of all of the SAILS libraries. The following subjects are just some suggestions for your search:
- African Americans--History--Sources
- Constitutional history--United States--Sources
- Feminism--United States--History--Sources
- Great Britain--History--20th century--Sources
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--History--Sources
- Middle Ages--History--Sources
- North America--History--Sources
- Russian Americans--History--Sources
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources
- United States--History--Sources
- Vietnam--History--1945-1975--Sources
- Women's rights--United States--History--Sources
SAILS Databases
As members of SAILS, Durfee students and teachers can access journal and newspaper articles as well as online reference books, from the library's computers and from home. Simply go to the online catalog page, access the online catalog, and click on .
Selected Reference Books
- American decades primary sources
- An American primer
- The American reader, from Columbus to today
- American state papers
- Annals of America
- Documents of American history
- Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America. Primary documents
- Great debates in American history
- Historic documents
- Middle Ages : primary sources
- Pictures unlimited; sources of pictorial illustrations
- Twentieth-century America : a primary source collection
- World War II : primary sources
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