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HIST 152 – Creating a Museum Exhibit: World History Sources

This provides information on the research process, planning an interpretation of history for an audience, resources for finding background information, research, and primary sources, and tips on citing.

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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