Primary Sources - Foundations of the Globalized World - HIST 180 - Davis - Marshall Brooks Library at Principia College

Primary Source Resources

Global Primary Source Collections

Milestone Documents in World History
Covers 125 iconic primary source documents from ancient times to the present and from virtually every geographical region. Each entry offers the full text of the document in question as well as an in-depth, analytical essay that places the document in its historical context.
Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources
These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic.
Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources
These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic.
Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources
Provides primary source documents focused on immigration and multiculturalism in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. International in scope.

Primary Source Collections for Specific Times or Regions

African Online Digital Library (AODL)
The African Online Digital Library (AODL) is a portal to multimedia collections about Africa. MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center at Michigan State University, is partnering with universities and cultural heritage organizations in Africa to build this resource. Collections include African Activist Archive Project, African Oral Narratives, and South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy.
Avalon Project - The Middle East 1916-2001 : A Documentary Record
A selection of primary source documents on public policy, diplomacy, and international law in the Middle East from 1916-2001.
Historic Documents 1972-2021
The Historic Documents series has made primary source research easy by presenting excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the world.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project from Fordham University
The Internet History Sourcebooks include an Ancient History Sourcebook, Medieval Sourcebook (It is the largest online resource of medieval and Byzantine textual sources.), and a Modern History Sourcebook. Subsidiary sourcebooks are also available. See the More Info link.

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SUBSIDIARY SOURCEBOOKS
The following consist of thematically based subsets of texts, with some additional documents and links, of the three main Sourcebooks listed above.

Internet African History Sourcebook
Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
Internet Global History Sourcebook
Internet Indian History Sourcebook
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
Internet History of Science Sourcebook
Internet Women's History Sourcebook
People With a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Library of Congress Digital Collections provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.