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HIST 4363: American Slavery

Get started researching topics in the history of American slavery.

Librarian

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Kristina Claunch
Contact:
936-294-1520
kclaunch@shsu.edu
Library (NGL) Room 223G

Historical Document Collections

Historical Newspapers

Video: How to Search America's Historical Newspapers

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Video: Using Dates to Search History Databases

Many primary source databases cover a long period of history, so you can really improve your searching by knowing how to search only the dates you need.

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Video: Finding Primary Sources in the Catalog

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Help with Primary Sources

How to Understand and Find Primary Sources

 

What Did They Call...?

Language changes constantly over time. For example, African American is common today, but historically people have used Afro-American, black, colored, Negro, African, slave, etc. How do you know what word historical people used for an idea?

Search the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (or find it in the library in the 2nd floor Reference section, call number PE1591 .H55 2009, volumes 1-2). 

OED Online
Historical Thesaurus
 
  

Slave Narratives

Find more by searching for the subject "Slaves United States Biography."

Other Primary Sources in Print

Often a variety of primary documents are collected together into a book (usually related to a time period, topic, or theme).

Below are just a few broad collections in the Library; each book contains many original documents.

(Note: many of these books will contain both primary and secondary content, so use your judgement or ask a librarian for help in distinguishing the two).

 

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