BIS 490D Exotics at Home: Americans Studying Americans
Library Contact
- Katie Whitson, 425-352-5341 ; kwhitson@uwb.edu
- "...documentary records or materials that have survived from a particular historical era; that are contemporary or nearly contemporary with the period being studied."
- "Primary sources are actual records that have survived from the past, such as letters, photographs, (or) articles of clothing."
- "Primary resources provide firsthand evidence of historical events. They are generally unpublished materials such as manuscripts, photographs, maps, artifacts, audio and video records, oral histories, postcards, and posters. In some instances, published materials can also be viewed as primary materials for the period in which they were written. In contrast, secondary materials such as textbooks, synthesize and interpret primary materials."
Primary Source - Definitions
[From: VanFossen, P.J. and J.M. Shiveley. Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Government, Economics, and Contemporary World Issues, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 2001]
[From: Library of Congress. "Lesson One. The Historians' Sources." Accessed at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/psources/ source.html]
[From: UCLA Institute on Primary Source: What is a Primary Source? http://ipr.ues.gseis.ucla.edu/info/definition.html]
Websites for Primary Sources
- Using Primary Sources on the Web
- History on the Web
- America from the Great Depression to World War II
- American Memory Homepage
- National Records and Archives Administration
- Repositories of Primary Sources
- FDR and Great Depression: Depression Era Photography
Websites for Primary Sources
To search for websites for Primary Sources using the online catalog, try doing a Keyword search for primary sources
and choose location electronic resources
Finding Online Images
Websites for Analyzing Primary Sources: Worksheets and Questions to Think About
- Basic Strategies in Reading Photographs
- Library of Congress: Questions for Analyzing Primary Sources
- Library of Congress Learning Page: The Historians' Sources: Analysis of Primary Sources
- Photograph Analysis Worksheet
FSA Photographers - Websites
- American Memory: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
- Walker Evans Revolutionizes Documentary Photography
- Dorothea Lange: Women Come to the Front
- Arthur Rothstein
Other Historical Resources
To find relevant indexes, electronic journals, and websites, you may do a History Subject search
Use these tools to help locate secondary source information
- To find books, journal titles or videos, search the UW Libraries Catalog
- To find articles, search one of the journals databases from Databases and Catalogs
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Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present. -
Expanded Academic Index
Provides indexing and abstracting for approximately 1,500 scholarly and general interest periodicals, covering all major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. - Proquest Databases
Indexing and full text for a basic collection of general-interest, humanities, social science and science periodicals and newspapers; 1986 to present. Divided into Newspapers and periodicals sections. - Anthropological Literature
Anthropological literature describes articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Updated quarterly, Anthropological literature indexes articles two or more pages long in works published in English and other European languages from the 19th century to the present. Anthropological literature includes more than 426,000 records. -
Sociological Abstracts
Contains abstracts of serial literature in sociology and related disciplines from approximately 2,500 journals. - JSTOR
A subject searchable index of journals online with JSTOR. Retrieves full-text backfiles of scholarly journals, some of which date back to the 1800's - Historical Newspapers Online
Contains three historical newspaper citation indexes: Palmer's Index to the Times of London 1790-1905; Official Index to the Times of London 1906-1980; and the Historical Index to the New York Times 1863-1905 and 1913-Sept 1922. This library does not provide access to the Palmer's Full Text Online
Keywords and Phrases for Photographs
- Ethnology
- Ethnography
- Photography
- Photographs
- Documentary
- Pictorial Works
- Photography in ethnology
- Indigenous Peoples--Portraits
- Portrait Photography
Presentation - February 7, 2008 - FSA Photography
Selected ResourcesSt. Louis World's Fair Presentation - January 24, 2008
- St. Louis World's Fair Presentation, 1904.
- St. Louis World's Fair Power Point Presentation (pdf)
- Works Cited for St. Louis World's Fair
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