History Research Starter

How to find and use primary sources.

Center for History and New Media deals with primary sources, including reviews of online primary source archives, and analyzing primary sources.

Wide range of materials, including primary texts, audio recordings, movie and news clips.

Site offers documents from earliest days of the French Revolution through the Napoleonic Wars.

Depictions of the French Revolutionary Crowd.

The French Revolution covered through essays, images, text document, songs, maps, a timeline, and glossary.

Documents on liberalism as viewed through utilitarianism, laissez-faire economics, and radical politics.

Documents on nationalism from the 18th through 20th centuries.

Documents on Tsarist state, Russian Revolution, Bolshevik rule to 1924, and Stalinism.

Fascism in Italy and Spain.