Primary Sources are the historical evidence, and the most crucial element of your exhibit. Examples of sources include photographs, letters, diary entries, interviews/oral histories, and newspaper articles.
Collections from Bunn Library:
Jstor Images contains over 1.8 million digital images in the arts, architecture, the humanities and science from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, and photo archives.
This primary source collection spans five centuries, charting the rise and fall of empires around the world, and explores colonial history, politics, culture and society.
Modern World History offers a comprehensive look at world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of subject entries, biographies, images, videos and slideshows, maps and graphs, primary sources, and timelines combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history. Focused Topic Centers pull forward interesting entries, search terms, documents, and maps handpicked by our editors to help users find a starting point for their research, as well as videos and slideshow overviews to offer a visual introduction to key eras and regions. All the Infobase history databases in a collection are fully cross-searchable.
This full-text database contains a broad range of scholarly journals in the arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences. The JSTOR mission is unique in that it creates a permanent, digitized archive of the selected titles.
Historical Newspapers (from Bunn Library):
Provides full-text access to global, regional, and local news, including The Trentonian, Trenton Times, and Princeton Packet.
NYT Historical edition covers the newspaper from 1851-2016. For more recent articles try New York Times (ProQuest Central), which covers June 1, 1980-Present. For today's news, visit the digital New York Times.
Search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source widely considered to be the world's "newspaper of record."
Print Books in the Library Catalog:
Voices of Decolonization by Collections from the Web:
For further recommendations, visit the Bunn Library's Primary Source Research Guide