Primary Primary Documents
The library subscribes to many databases containing primary sources. Below are a few suggestions for historical research-
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Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new windowVariety of primary sources from the 15th to the 21st centuries. Includes 19th Century UK Periodicals; 19th Century US Newspapers; Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO); The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths-Kress Library of Economic Literature, 1450-1850; 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; Archives Unbound; Times Digital Archive; Illustrated London News Historical Archive; Sunday Times Digital Archive; American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990; Archives of Sexuality & Gender; Archives Unbound; Associated Press Collections; British Library Newspapers; Sabin Americana, 1500-2013; Religions of America.
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Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 This link opens in a new window
Covers themes such as civil rights, counter culture, left movements, right movements, sexual revolution, student activism, and the Vietnam War. 1960 to 1974.
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AT GETTYSBURG OR What a Girl Saw and Heard Of the Battle. A TRUE NARRATIVE. BY MRS. TILLIE (PIERCE) ALLEMAN.Author was 15 years old at the time of the battle
This book was published in 1889. 2013 book listed in box at right is based on this work. -
Children in the Civil War- Digital Historywebsites provides excerpts of children's experiences. Check Library catalog for the books quoted (see tab for teacher resources for info on the books) Both are available in print at the library
Keywords/subjects in Catalog
It is important to remember that the computer will only find the exact words that are put in any search boxes. Some good keywords and search strategies (see tab above for more on strategic searching) are listed below-
Keywords- diary, letters, memoir, personal narrative, teen, juvenile, young, boy, girl, etc....
Truncation- using a wildcard • (teen, teens, or teenager= teen*
Grouping keywords together: using ( )
Example: (diary or narrative) and teen*
Below is a list of examples of books written (or containing) accounts of teenagers/youth. Using these types of keywords to examine specific events or time periods is a good search strategy for finding resources.
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Becoming American: Young people in the American Revolution / Paul M. Zall.
Call Number: ARC Juvenile -- E275 .Z34 1993ISBN: 9780208023551Includes letters, diaries, and journals of twenty young people from all walks of life, reflecting their experiences in the pivotal period in American history from 1767 to 1789 -
Tillie Pierce / Tanya Anderson
Call Number: ARC Juvenile -- E475.53 .A55 2013ISBN: 9781467706926Relates the experiences of ordinary teenager Tillie Pierce during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, as she helped save wounded Union and Confederate soldiers during the bloody, three-day battle. -
Discovery of the world : a political awakening in the shadow of Mussolini / Castellina, Luciana
Call Number: Alkek General, Floor 5 -- DG571 .C426513 2014ISBN: 9781781682869Luciana Castellina is one of Italy's most prominent left intellectuals and a cofounder of the newspaper Il manifesto. In this coming-of-age memoir, based on her diaries, she recounts her political awakening as a teenage girl in Fascist Italy--where she used to play tennis with Mussolini's daughter--and the subsequent downfall of the regime. Discovery of the World is about war, anti-Semitism, anti-fascism, resistance, the belief in social justice, the craving for experience, travel, political rallies, cinema, French intellectuals and FIAT workers, international diplomacy and friendship. All this is built on an intricate web made of reason and affection, of rational questioning and ironic self-narration as well as of profound nostalgia, disappointment and discovery.
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We Are Witnesses / Jacob Boas (Editor)
Call Number: Alkek Juvenile Collection, Floor 3 -- D804.3 .W385 1995ISBN: 9780805037029The five diarists in this book did not survive the war. But their words did. Each diary reveals one voice, one teenager coping with the impossible. We see David Rubinowicz struggling against fear and terror. Yitzhak Rudashevski shows us how Jews clung to culture, to learning, and to hope, until there was no hope at all. Moshe Ze'ev Flinker is the voice of religion, constantly seeking answers from God for relentless tragedy. Eva Heyman demonstrates the unquenchable hunger for life that sustained her until the very last moment. And finally, Anne Frank reveals the largest truth they all left for us: Hitler could kill millions, but he could not destroy the human spirit. These stark accounts of how five young people faced the worst of human evil are a testament, and an inspiration, to the best of the human soul. -
The complete Marjory Fleming; her journals, letters & verses,
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Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 1935Writings of a Scottish girl born Jan. 1803, who died at age nine, and was immortalized by Dr. John Brown in his essay Pet Marjorie (1863).
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Child of the Civil Rights Movement / Paula Young Shelton; Raúl Colón (Illustrator)
Call Number: Alkek Juvenile Collection, Floor 3 -- F334.S4 S54 2010ISBN: 9780375843143Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child's unique perspective to an important chapter in America's history. -
The Diary of Anne Frank / Anne Frank; Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation Staff (Compiled by); Arnold J. Pomerans (Translator)
Call Number: Alkek General, Floor 5 -- DS135.N6 F73313 1989ISBN: 9780385240239A comparison of the three versions of Anne Frank's diary; Anne's original entries, including never-before-published material; the diary as she herself edited it while in hiding; and the best-known version, edited by her father.
