The Sherborn Library

Pathfinders: Primary Sources

PATHFINDER
TOPIC: PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS
Sherborn Library print resources
Online resources
Step 1:
The Reference Section
For use in the Library only.
 
R 973 Ti
 
Album of American History, edited by James Truslow Adams
Photographs, letters, artifacts pertaining to American history from the Colonial period to the 1982
R 973 C
 
Documents of American History edited by Henry Steele Commanger
Single volume source of American historical documents
R 973 Ti
 
This Fabulous Century by the editors of Time-Life Books.
Photographic encyclopedia of American History from 1870 to 1970
R 973 An
 
Annals of America, published by Encyclopedia Brittanica
Speeches, leaflets, tracts, constitutions, laws, state papers, etc., chronologically arranged from 1493 to the present.
R 911 Ra
 

 

 
Rand-McNally's Atlas of the American Revolution
Maps covering the period from Spanish exploration to the American Revolution

 
R 911 At
 
Oxford Atlas of Exploration
Maps, art and photographs depicting world exploration from the Ancient Egyptians to the present.
R 911 S
 
Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd
Historical maps from Ancient Egypt to the 1960's.
Step 2:
Newpapers/Periodicals
For use in the Library only.
 
Life   1961-1972
Look    1964-1971
National Geographic   1090-1911, 1916-current
Dover-Sherborn Suburban Press   1969-current
Suburban Free Press   1957-1965
Suburban Press and Recorder   1968-1968
American Heritage Magazine   1954-current
 
Step 3:
The General Collection
(materials you can borrow)
 
The Time-Life "Time Frame" series.
A pictorial series comprised of photographs, drawings. political cartoons, maps, posters, etc.

930 AG      The Age of god-kings : time frame--3000-1500 BC
930 BA      Barbarian tides : time frame--1500-600 BC
909.81 CO      The Colonial overlords : time frame AD 1850-1900
909.1 DI      The Divine campaigns : time frame AD 1100-1200
307.336 DO    The Domestic world
930 EM      Empires ascendant : time frame 400 BC-AD 200
355.009 EN    The Enterprise of war
930 EM      Empires besieged : time frame--AD 200-600
940.23 EU      The European emergence : time Frame AD 1500-1600
909.07 FU    Fury of the Northmen : time frame, AD 800-1000
573.2 HU     The Human dawn
909.1 LI     Light in the East : time frame AD 1000-1100
909.97 MA    The March of Islam : time frame, AD 600-800
951.025 MO      The Mongol conquests : time frame AD 1200-1300
909.82 NU      The Nuclear age : TimeFrame AD 1950-1990
909.097 RI      The Rise of cities
910.9 VO      Voyages of discovery : timeFrame AD 1400-1500
908.82 SH      Shadow of the dictators : time frame AD 1925-1950
909.7 WI      Winds of revolution, TimeFrame AD 1700-1800
909.821 WO      The World in arms : timeframe AD 1900-1925
 
910.45 Ti
 
The Seafarers
22 volume encyclopedia of sea voyage, including volumes on Vikings, pirates, ancient mariners, ocean liners, military vessels. Illustrated with maps, paintings, ship's logs. etc.
940.54 Ti
World War II
by the editors of Time-Life Books
39 volume pictorial encyclopedia
Letters from the Homefront series

J 974.3 BE    The Revolutionary War
J 940.548173 SC    World War II
J 973.7 SC    The Civil War
J 959.704 SC    The Vietnam War
 
958.7 Vi
The Vietnam Experience

Photographic encyclopedia of the Vietnam War.
942 CH
History of the English Speaking Peoples
by Sir Winston Churchill
An illustrated encyclopedia (based on the texts of the same name) that includes primary source art, maps, photographs of artifacts, architecture.
993 Li
The Life History of the United States
12 volume encyclopedia of American history
973.7 Co
The Blue and the Gray
by Henry Steele Commanger
Civil War accounts from the men who fought it.
978 Ti
The Old West
by the editors of Time-Life Books.
26 volume pictorial encyclopedia of the history of the American frontier.
Biographies
Search for biographies, autobiographies, letters, memoirs, diaries, journals by the name of the subject in the Library catalog
To locate additional information in the Sherborn Library Graphical Online Catalog, you can perform a subject search which enables you to browse a list of headings, or a keyword search which enables you to locate your search topic as part of the title and subject index.
Step 4:
Primary source documents on the web
Click here for links to online primary source materials, arranged by subject
 


 
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