Primary sources for historical research

These guides list major print, digital and microform collections held at Princeton. For more information, see Primary sources for historical research: introduction. And see Digital history: full text primary sources for historians for descriptions of our major digital collections.

• Africa [updated 2006]
• African-American History and the Antebellum South [updated 2006]
• American History to 1900 [updated 2007]
• Great Britain 1700-1900: a guide to primary sources at Princeton [updated 2008]
• History of Science, Technology & Medicine [updated 2007]
• Latin America -- please see Latin American & Iberian Primary Sources available at Princeton University Library
• Middle East [updated 2008]
• Religion [updated 2008]
• South and East Asia [updated 2007]
• U.S. economic, business and labor history [updated 2007]

These guides have not yet been updated, and list only microform collections.

• United States history
  • United States: Presidential Papers [updated 2003]
  • Papers of American Individuals & Families [updated 2003]
  • African-American History & the American South since 1890
  • 20th Century U.S. Foreign Affairs, Military Security, Intelligence [updated 2003]
• European history
  • Medieval & Early Modern Britain
  • l9th & 20th Century Britain
  • Western Continental Europe [updated 2003]
  • Russia/Soviet Union/Eastern Europe
  • Papers of Assorted Foreign Individuals and Families
• Topics in history
  • History of Law
  • Women's History
  • Special Collections & Archival Materials
  • Microforms at Mendel Music Library