Primary Sources: A Selected List of Documents

This is a select list of primary sources. The microforms collection on first floor has many more primary sources for historical research; see the Microforms page for a complete list.

World
The Great Documents of Western Civilization. 1965. Reference CB 245 V5

Sources of Medieval History (250 - 1500). 1967. 2 v. D 113 D3

Readings in World History. 1968. 10v. D5 M27

Africa
Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa: Documents. 1972. DT 36 C44

Colonial Rule in Africa: Readings from Primary Sources. 1979. DT31 C56

Asia
People's Republic of China, 1949-1979: A Documentary Survey. 1980. 5 v.
DS 777.55 P4243

People's Republic of China, 1979-1984 : A Documentary Survey. 1986. 2v.
DS779.17 P46

Basic Documents in the Development of Modern India and Pakistan, 1835-1947. 1970.
DS403 .D63

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict : a documentary record. 1992. DS119.7 I82688 1992

Europe
British Documents on Foreign Affairs. 1859-.
    Russia. JX 752 B74 1984
    Russia 1859-1914 JX 632 B74 1983
    Near and Middle East 1856-1914 JX 632 B74 1983
    Soviet Union 1917-1939 JX 752 B74 1984 15v. Pt. 2 Ser B
    Turkey, Iran and Middle East 1918-1939 JX 842 B74 1985 13v.
    North America 1919-1939 JX 752 B74 1986 Pt.2 Ser C Pt. 1
    North America 1838-1914 JX 632 B74 1986 Pt.1 Ser C Pt. 1 Ser
    Europe 1848-1914 JX 632 B7414 1987 Pt. 2 Ser D
    Latin America 1914-1939 JX 632 B766 1989 Pt.2 Ser D Pt. 2
    First World War 1914-1918 D 621 G7 B75 1989 Pt. 2 Ser I
    Paris Peace Conference of 1919 D645 B73 1989

Europe 1991: A Scandinavian Perspective. 1991. HF 1559. V35

Documentary History of Eastern Europe. 1970. DR 1 .B38

Original Letters Illustrative of English History. 1825. 11 v. DA 300 E5

Parliamentary Debates. House of Commons. 1944-. J 301 P37 (Early years in Microform)

Tudor Royal Proclamations. 1964-69. 3 v. DA 310 G798

Revelations from the Russian archives : documents in English translation. 1997.
CD1711 .R488

Uniting Germany : documents and debates, 1944-1993. 1994. DD290.22 .D4813

Latin America
Letters and people of the Spanish Indies, sixteenth century. 1976. F1411 .L58

New Iberian World: A Documentary History of the Discovery and Settlement of Latin America to the Early 17th Century. 1984. 5 v. F 1411 I18 1984

United States
American Diplomatic and Public Papers: The United States and China 1842-1905 1973, 1979, 1981. JX 233 C6 A5

American Foreign Policy Basic Documents 1977-1980. 1983. JX 1417 A558 1983

American Foreign Relations 1971-1978. 8v. JX 231 D61

The American Indian and the United States: A Documentary History. 1973. 4 v.
E 93 W27

Annals of America. 1968. 21 v. E 173 A793

Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement. 1992. E 185.61 D64 1992

Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America. 1965. 4 v.
E 441 D69

Documents of American History. 1988. 2v. Reference E 173 D59 1988

Documents of the American Revolution 1770-1783. 1972. 21 v. E 203 G68 1972

Documents of United States Indian Policy. 1990. KF 8205 D63 1990

Documents on American Foreign Relations, 1938-1970. JX 231 D6

Documents on Disarmament, 1945-. JX 1974 A1 U542

Dynamics of World Power: Documentary History of U.S. Foreign Policy 1945-1973. 1973. 5 v. E 744 S395

Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies, Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America. Compiled 1906. 2-7v. KF 4530 T46 1968

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1861- JX 233 A3

Founding the Republic: A Documentary History. 1995. E 210 F68 1995

Great Debates in American History (1764-1913). 1913. 14 v. E 173 M64

Inquiry Handbooks. (Reprint 1974). Originally printed 1918-1919. 20 v. JX 68 I48 1974

Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-65. 1968. 7 v.
JK 9803 A4

Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789. 24v. JK 1033 L47

National Party Platforms. Library has 1840-1980. JK 2255 J64 1978 and JK 2255 J643 (supplement)

National State Papers of the United States, 1789-1817: Texts of Documents. Library has: George Washington, J 82 A1 T49 1985. John Adams, J 82 A2 T49 1980

Naval Documents of the American Revolution. 10 v. E 271 U583

New American World. 1978. 5 v. E 101 N47

Our hearts fell to the ground : Plains Indian views of how the West was lost. 1996. E78.G73 O97

Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North America. 1982. 6v. E 187 G79

Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730's to 1790. 1983. 4 v. E 446 W73 1983

Slave Narratives -- A Folk History of Slavery in the U.S., from Interviews with Former Slaves. (Federal Writers' Project) 1976. 17 v. E 444 F27 1976

Territorial Papers of the United States. 1973-. 28 v. E 173 C32

United States: Congress
Congressional Record, 1880-1980 on Microfilm. 1981+ in print in U.S. Documents. 1989+ on the Web

The Annals of Congress (1789-1827), Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and The Congressional Globe (1833-1873) are in microform.

Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress. 4 v. JK 111 U55 1967

United States: Presidential Papers
Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Begins 1789 (Washington) and ends 1913 (Taft). 1913. 11 v. J 81 B97

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington, 1789, to George Bush, 1989. 1989. J 81 C89

Public Papers of the President. Begins with Hoover. J 80 A283 Index volumes: J 80 A2832

State of the Union Messages of the Presidents, 1790-1966. 1966. 3 v. Reference J 81 C66

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. Begins 1965 (Lyndon Johnson). Per J 80 A284. 1993+ on the Web

World War I
British Documents on the Origins of the War 1898-1914. 1967. 11 v. D 505 G68 1967

German Diplomatic Documents 1871-1914. 1969. 4 v. D 394 G415 1969

Source Records of the Great War. 1931. 7 v. D 521 H6 1931

World War II
The Holocaust. 1982. 18 v. D 810 J4 H655

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. 1946. D 804 G42 A4

Pearl Harbor Attack (Congressional Hearings). 40 v. KF 25 P4 1945

Tokyo War Crimes Trial. 22 v. + supplement. JX 5438.3 P744 1981

Trials of War Criminals. Nuernberg Military Tribunal, 1949-1953. 15 v.
D 804 G42 A42

World War II German Military Studies. 1979. 24 v. D 757 W67

Post World War II
Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement. 1992. E 185.61 D64 1992

Documents on International Affairs (1949-1963). 1962. 12 v. D 442 S82

Historic Documents. 1972- . 1972-. Reference E 839.5 H57

Vietnam, the Definitive Documentation of Human Decisions. 1979. 2 v. DS 556.8 V53

Treaties
Major Peace Treaties of Modern History, 1648-1967. 4 v. JX 121 I8

Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States, 1776-1949. 13 v.
JX 236 1968 A5

United States Treaties and Other International Agreements: Cumulative Index 1950-.
JX 236 A2 INDEX

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