scholarly and peer-reviewed journals - a good choice for most topics
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access to online reference books about business, environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation & world, and science
newspapers, magazines & journals of the ethnic, minority and native press
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New York Public Library provides access to over 700000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities from their collections.
A well-respected general encyclopedia, plus a dictionary & selected periodical articles
Documentaries and feature films in African Studies, Asian Studies, Indigenous Studies, Latin American Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and more.
Streaming video from well-known producers like PBS, BBC, History, plus extensive archival footage.
Watch acclaimed documentaries and award-winning educational films.
Watch videos on European History topics such as ancient Europe, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and more.
Primary sources are documents, images, recordings, or any other physical objects created during the time period being researched. They are essential to the study of history because they allow a researcher to get as close as possible to what actually happened during a historical event or time period.
In the field of History, primary sources include (but are not limited to):
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Secondary sources are created by someone who did not personally experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions being researched. Instead secondary sources interpret and analyzes primary sources.
Some common types of secondary sources in the field of History are:
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The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.
Browse the digital collections of the U.S. Library of Congress for documents, photographs, essays and more
The official website for BBC History Magazine, BBC History Revealed and BBC World Histories Magazine
Extensive portal of websites featuring primary sources for European history, indexed by country of origin and also major time period.
