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Primary Sources in History

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Government Documents

Finding Primary Sources using the UNF Catalog

Remember that academic libraries use the Library of Congress Classification System and subject headings. Once you find a good subject heading, you can find all the items in a library on that topic.

So -- be sure to look at the full record and use keywords from the subject headings to do another search or you may see the perfect subject heading that you can just click on.

  • correspondence
  • presidents and correspondence
  • soldiers and correspondence
  • diaries
  • personal narratives
  • speeches, addresses, etc.
  • campaign speeches
  • autobiography - make sure it really is an autobiography
  • memoir - make sure it really is a memoir

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