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An effort has been made here to target sources of information that are particularly relevant to students of History at Haverford College. Philadelphia is rich with primary souces in the form of museum collections, special interest organizations, and archives, and we are priveleged to have the resources of Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, and the University of Pennsylvania available to us as well.
Please note that browsing by subject factors in the specialties of the History Department's faculty. If you are looking for supplementary material to your coursework, it may be a good idea to start with this listing.
As always, be aware of copyright issues when making use of electronic materials. If there are sources not listed here that you have found useful, please feel free to email the history department's webmaster at history@haverford.edu.
I. Getting Started: Guides to Archives
Archives USA
Online database that indexes manuscript holdings of over four thousand archives and libraries. Options for searching include subject heading and geographic location of institutions. http://archives.chadwyck.com
Directory of Archival Manuscript Repositories in Delaware Valley
University Archives and Records Center, University of Pennsylvania, 1991. H Special Collections Quaker Ref CD3477 P48 D57 1991
Subject Collections: A Guide to Special Book Collections and Subject Emphases as Reported by University, College, Public, and Special Libraries and Museums in the United States and Canada.
R. Bowker, 1993.
- H Magill Ref Room Z731 A78 1993
- B Canaday Ref f Z688 A2 A8 1993
II. Finding Primary Sources in Library Catalogues
You can find some primary sources in Tripod. Look for the word "sources" following your Library of Congress subject heading, e.g. "france history 1789-1815 sources." For autobiographical accounts, look for such terms as "Correspondence," "Personal Narratives," etc. e.g. "haiti history revolution 1791-1804 personal narratives"
Watch for anthologies of documents and literary pieces that have been compiled for historical eras. They contain extracts from a wide variety of sources and point you to the full texts for further reading. See, for example:
- Century of Louis XIV. (S. McCabe D 273 .A2 R351 1972)
- English Women's Voices, 1540-1700. (H Magill and B Canaday PR 1110 W6 E54 1992)
- Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth Century France (H Magill Reserve PQ 1276 E75 L53 197)