Here are some good resources to try when you are looking for your primary source. This is one of the areas where websites will be a great resource, so we include a list of some of the better document collections available online, as well as databases that include primary sources.
Websites
This site includes the full text for the Salem Great Lives in History and Great Events in History, as well as for Milestone Documents of American History and of American Leaders.
The searchable Encyclopaedia Britannica, combined with web sites, periodical articles, images, video and more.
These print resources contain innumerable primary source documents. All of the books listed here are on reserve in the library and do not circulate. Ask a librarian if you need help locating the cart in the library.
270 Bettenson. Documents of the Christian Church #015592-5
291.09 Eliade. From Primitives to Zen #022942-8
303.482 Lewis. A Middle East Mosaic #051602-8
REF 320.54. Nationalism and Populism Vol 1 and 2. #201283, #201282
325.32 Smith. Imperialism #060390
327.51 Gelber. The Dragon and the Foreign Devils #065299
330.938 Austin. Economic & Social History of Ancient Greece #200410
355 Keegan. The Book of War: 25 Centuries of War Writing #051305-2
359 Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Naval Battles #111307 or #200521
808.08 Heritage of Western Civilization, v. 1 #052354-9
REF 909 Milestone Documents in World History
909 Sources of World Societies v. 1 to 1715 #201471
909 100 Documents that changed the world #201492
909 Eyewitness to History #046544-6
909 The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness History #99420
909 Webster. Historical Selections #010047-X
909.04927007 Ibn Khaldun. The Muqaddimah #090042
909.07 Gabrieli. Arab Historians of the Crusades #99237
REF 909.07 Middle Ages Primary Sources #55188
REF 909.07 The Medieval and Early Modern World #112609
REF 909.07 Middle Ages (476-1500) #200768
909.09 The Church in the Roman Empire #049106-8
909.09 Rome: Late Republic and Principate #049105-6
909.097 The Islamic World #044181-8
909.09821 Makers of the Western Tradition v. 1 #99356
909.09821 Sources of the Western Tradition #110949
909.09821 Western Civilization, v. 1 & v. 2 #060749, #060750
909.09821 The Western Tradition, v. 1 & v. 2 #99437, #99432
915.693 Jewish Heritage Reader #018321-0
930 Davis. Readings in Ancient History v. 1 & v. 2 #000631-2, #92446
930 Readings in Ancient History #051253-9
930 Readings in the History of the Ancient World #111185
931.04 Qian. Records of the Grand Historian #060809
932.021 Jones. Cleopatra: A Sourcebook #064313
937 Lewis. Roman Civilization, v. 1 & v. 2 #051488-3, #050566-3
937 Shelton. As the Romans Did #115046
937.05 The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works #071623
937.08 Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars #92906
938 Readings in the Classical Historians #045261-0
940 The Greek Polis #049104-4
940 Viorst. The Great Documents of Western Civilization #019518
940.1 Medieval Europe #049107-X
940.1 Tierney. The Middle Ages, v. 1 #93980
940.21. Renaissance & Early Modern Era. #201272
948.022 The Viking Age: A Reader #201271
950 Asia #201273
951 Early Medieval China #070024
951 Sources of Chinese Tradition, v. 1 #063274
951.9 Sources of Korean Tradition, v. 1 & v. 2 #67773, #112461
952 Sources of Japanese Tradition #93396
954 Sources of Indian Tradition #061308
TR Sources of World Societies #116537
