Primary sources include historical accounts, images, diaries, government documents-- any materials that were created at the time of the events you're studying. These resources will help you find digitized primary sources and artistic representations of costumes, theaters, and productions.
Library Resources
Explore primary sources from from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies around the world including artworks, photographs, publications, and other artifacts.
Primary documents focusing on the history and culture of African Americans, Latino Americans and American Indians.
Early English Books Online has over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
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