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Primary Sources: World History

Tips on how to identify, access, and use primary source materials.

Selected Primary Sources in World History

Documents in World History by Peter N. Stearns; Stephen S. Gosch; Erwin P. Grieshaber
Call Number: MAIN D5 .D623 2000
ISBN: 0321038568
Publication Date: 1999
Eyewitness to History by John Carey (Editor)
Call Number: MAIN D5 .E94 1987
ISBN: 0674287509
Publication Date: 1988
A collection of over three hundred eyewitness accounts spanning twenty-four turbulent centuries.
The Human Record: Sources of Global History by Alfred J. Andrea; James H. Overfield
Call Number: MAIN D5 .A53 2005
ISBN: 0618370404
Publication Date: 2004
Islamic Central Asia: an anthology of historical sources by Scott C. Levi; Ron Sela, Eds.
Call Number: READ ONLINE
Publication Date: 2010
Sources of Japanese Tradition by Wm. Theodore de Bary (Editor); Donald Keene (Editor); George Tanabe (Editor); Paul Varley (Editor)
Call Number: DS821 .S68 2001 READ ONLINE
ISBN: 0231121385
Sources of the West by Mark Kishlansky
Call Number: MAIN CB245 .S578 2008
ISBN: 9780205568390
Publication Date: 2007
Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in History by Kathleen W. Craver
Call Number: READ ONLINE
ISBN: 9780313307492
Publication Date: 1999

History Sources on the Web

Internet History Sourcebooks Project (ISHP)
Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts. Organized by period (ancient, medieval, modern), themes (women, Islamic, etc.), and source type (travellerʻs accounts, legal). From Fordham University.

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