HIST 301: The Historian's Craft (Watkins, Spring 2025)

As noted earlier, the best place to search by type is the library database list.

The Main Catalog is surprising good too for finding primary sources by type.
1. Use advanced search.
2. Conduct a search. Limit the publication date.
3. After the results load, use the limiters on the left.

OR

1. Use advanced search.
2. Conduct a search. Limit the publication date.
3. Use add the material type as a search term. Examples:

• Sources
• Personal narratives
• Memoirs
• Slave narratives
• Captivity narratives
• Correspondence
• Biography
• Autobiography
• Interviews
• Diaries
• Early Works to 1800
• Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
• Speeches
• Manuscripts
• Early Works to 1800
• Pamphlets
• Facsimiles
• Maps