Books are great places to find primary source material. Look in the appendices & exhibits of books to view excerpts of diaries, interviews, facsimiles and more. Library Search also includes a number of Government Documents (primary sources). Look in the bibliographies of books to find citations for more sources of information to explore.
Here are examples of book search queries:
Here are some additional search tips.
By searching the Library Catalog, you will find many of the ebook titles from our collections, but there are a few ebook collections that are not completely included. To make sure you haven't missed anything, we suggest you search them as a database directly. They are:
Google Books is a Web archive of digitized books provided through a partnership among Google, libraries and publishers. Free resource.
Search for resources from around the world using Worldcat and Google Scholar then use the Interlibrary Loan to retrieve books, articles and even DVDs.