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Primary Sources for 79-314: Books, Documents, Essays

Books, Documents, Essays

Worldcat is a comprehensive catalog of books and other materials held in libraries throughout the United States and even some international libraries.  The Center for Research libraries' catalog contains more than 500,000 monographs in all formats and subject areas.The European Library searches European national libraries.

Searching Catalogs

The resources listed here are not the only ones available.  Many others are in print or microform and can be found by searching library catalogs, like CMU's library catalog, or Worldcat, a database of library holding thoughout the world (though mainly U. S.). Use some of these terms combined with your topic:


personal narratives
diaries
sources
correspondence
interviews
pamphlets
speeches
early works to 1800

For example:

"civil rights" and correspondence                      
slavery and "personal narratives"
Holocaust and "diaries"
"race relations" and interviews

 

History Librarian

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Charlotte Kiger Price
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Contact:
Hunt Library 109E
Pittsburgh, PA