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| Anything written at the time or by an eyewitness qualifies as a primary source. Relevant sources include official records and documents, newspapers and magazines of the time, the speeches letters, diaries, and memoirs of leaders and of ordinary people. Novels, plays and poetry, philosophical, political, and economic treatises written at the time also work for some topics. Art and music as well as oral histories can also be used, depending on the question you're investigating. |
| You can find the sources listed below in Tutt Library. Also check the Government Documents Collection. You can find there, for example, the proceedings of the Nuremburg Trials. Explore the Tiger as well, looking in particular for "personal narratives" or "documents". Be sure that what you find is written at the time and/or by a person who lived during the time. |
| The Internet provides a number of useful sources, particularly war memoirs, Holocaust diaries, works of art, propaganda, manifestos, selected literary works. There are also some newspapers and periodicals on line for the period. See the Suggested Web Sites page for a start. And check with the librarians for help on your topic. |
Newspapers and Periodicals (available in Tutt)
| LONDON TIMES | V. 40-43 1916-19 EXCEPT V. 42 |
| MANCHESTER GUARDIAN | V. 6 -1922 SEE PERIODICAL HOLDINGS |
| NEW YORK TIMES | SEPT. 1917-AUG. 1953;MICROFORM: SEPT. 1852-NOV. 2000 |
| VITAL SPEECHES OF THE DAY | V. 5-1938-; INDEX 80 |
| CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE | V. 23-79, 80-120, 1881-1930, not v. 104 |
| ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS | V. 18-20, 28-29, 182-; 1851-2, 1856, 1933- |
| ATHENAEUM (LONDON) | JULY, 1883-1897, 1889-FEB. 11, 1921 |
| ILLUSTRATION (later France Illustration) | V. 19-24, 34-46, 132-206; 1852-4, 1859-60, 1908-40 No. v. 40 |
| REVUE DES DEUX MONDES | GOOD RUN FROM 1841 TO 1941 |
| ILLUSTRATED WORLD | V. 24-39, 1915-23 |
| JOURNAL DES DEBATS. EDITION HEBDOMADAIRE | V. 8-10 1901-03 |
| LONDON MERCURY | V. 1-39 1919-39 |
| PUNCH | V. 1-97 120-14; 1841-86, 1907-48, not v. 23 |
Documents and Official Records (organized by period and subject)
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Turn of the Century and the Outbreak of the First World War |
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Author |
Title |
Publication Information |
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Germany. Auswartiges Amt |
German diplomatic documents, 1871-1914 |
selected
and translated by E.T.S. Dugdale, with an introd. by J.W. Headlam-Morley. New York : Harper, 1928-1931. |
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British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print. Part I, From the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War |
[Bethesda, Md.] : University Publications of America, c1991 |
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Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir, 1857-1919 |
How Britain strove for peace; a record of Anglo-German negotiations, 1898-1914, told from authoritative sources |
London, Macmillan, 1914 |
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Great Britain. Foreign Office |
British documents on the origins of the war, 1898-1914 |
edited by G.P. Gooch and Harold Temperley. London : H.M.S.O., 1926-1938. |
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Outbreak of War and the First World War |
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Author |
Title |
Publication Information |
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Germany. Auswartiges Amt |
Deutschen Dokumente zum Kriegsausbruch Outbreak of the World War : German documents |
collected
by Karl Kautsky; edited by Max Montgelas and Walther Schucking; translated by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law. New York : Oxford University Press, American Branch, 1924 |
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Great Britain. Foreign Office |
British documents on the origins of the war, 1898-1914 |
edited by G.P. Gooch and Harold Temperley. London : H.M.S.O., 1926-1938. |
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Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir, 1857-1919 |
How Britain strove for peace; a record of Anglo-German negotiations, 1898-1914, told from authoritative sources |
London, Macmillan, 1914 |
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Great Britain. Foreign Office |
Collected diplomatic documents relating to the outbreak of the European War |
London, H. M. Stationery Off., Harrison and Sons, printers, 1915 |
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Great Britain. Foreign Office |
Collective note addressed to the Greek Government by the French, British, and Russian ministers, and the reply of the Greek Government |
London, H. M. Stationary Off., Harrison and Sons, Printers, 1916 |
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Great Britain. Foreign Office |
Correspondence respecting events leading to the rupture of relations with Turkey |
London, H. M. Stationery Off., 1914 |
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Great Britain. Foreign Office |
Correspondence respecting the European crisis |
London, H.M. Stationery Off., Harrison and Sons, printers, 1914 |
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Russia. Ministerstvo inostrannykh del |
Documents respecting the negotions preceding [sic] the war published by the Russian government |
London : H.M.Stationery Off., Harrison and Sons, Printers, 1914 |
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Belgium. Ministere des affaires etrangeres |
The second Belgian grey book. Part 1 and part 2 (section 10) |
London, H. M. Stationery off., Darling and son, limited, printers, 1915 |
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Belgium. Ministere de la justice |
Reply to the German white book of the 10th May, 1915, "Die volkerrechtswidrige Fuhrung des belgischen Volkskriegs." |
London, H. M. Stationery off. [Sir J. Causton & sons, ltd., printers] 1918 |
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France. Ministere des affaires etrangeres |
Germany's violations of the laws of war 1914-15 |
compiled
under the auspices of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; tr. and with an introduction by J.O.P. Bland. With facsimiles of documents. New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915. |
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Mach, Edmund von, 1870-1927 |
Official diplomatic documents relating to the outbreak of the European war, with photographic reproductions of official editions of the documents (Blue, White, Yellow, etc., books) published by the governments of Austria-Hungary, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Russia and Serbia |
introduction, daily summaries, cross-references, and footnotes, by Edmund von Mach. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1916 |
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Geiss, Imanuel |
July 1914: the outbreak of the First World War: selected documents edited by Imanuel Geiss |
translated from the German by Henry Meyric Hughes & the author London : Batsford, 1967. |
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Scott, James Brown, 1866-1943 |
Diplomatic correspondence between the United States and Germany : August 1, 1914-April 6, 1917 |
ed. with introd. and analytical index, by James Brown Scott New York : Oxford University Press, 1918 |
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Germany. Auswartiges Amt |
Germany and the Revolution in Russia, 1915-1918; documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry |
Edited by Z. A. B. Zeman. London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1958. |
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The Disclosures from Germany |
New York : American Association for International Conciliation, 1918 |
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of International Law |
Official statements of war aims and peace proposals, December 1916 to November 1918 |
prepared
under the supervision of James Brown Scott, director of the Division
of international law of the Carnegie endowment for international
peace; Washington, The Endowment, 1921 |
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Between Two World Wars |
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Author |
Title |
Publication Information |
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European reconstruction : Section 1-16; April 20, 1922 - July 12, l923. |
Manchester : Printed and published by John Russell Scott for the Manchester Guardian Ltd. , 1922-1923 |
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Daehne van Varick, August von, 1846- |
Documents relating to the program of the first Hague Peace Conference, laid before the conference by the Netherland government |
London, New York, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1921. CALL # JX1906 .A3 no.36 |
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Marxists in face of fascism : writings by Marxists on fascism from the inter-war period |
[edited
by] David Beetham; Totowa,
N.J. : Barnes & Noble Books, 1984 |
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Germany. Auswartiges Amt |
Documents on German foreign policy 1918-1945. Series C (1933 -1937) The Third Reich: first phase |
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Gov. Printing Office, 1957-83 |
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Germany. Auswartiges Amt |
Documents on German foreign policy, 1918-1945. Series D (1937- 1945) |
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Gov. Printing Office, 1949-64 |
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Woodrow Wilson Foundation |
Official documents; texts of selected documents on U.S. foreign policy, 1918-1952 |
New York [1952?] |
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Another War: World War II |
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Author |
Title |
Publication
Information |
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Germany.
Auswartiges Amt |
Allied
intrigue in the Low Countries : further documents concerning the
Anglo-French policy of extending the war : full text of White book no.
5 |
published
by the German Foreign Office;New York : German Library of Information,
1940 |
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Germany.
Auswartiges Amt |
German
white book; documents concerning the last phase of the German-Polish
crisis |
New
York, German library of information [1939]
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Germany.
Auswartiges Amt |
Documents
on German foreign policy 1918-1945. Series C (1933
-1937) The Third Reich: first
phase |
Washington,
D.C. : U.S. Gov. Printing Office, 1957-83 |
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Germany.
Auswartiges Amt |
Documents
on German foreign policy, 1918-1945. Series D (1937-
1945) |
Washington,
D.C. : U.S. Gov. Printing Office, 1949-64 |
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Germany.
Auswartiges Amt |
Nazi-Soviet
relations, 1939-1941; documents from the archives of the German
Foreign Office |
Ed.
by Raymond James Sontag and James Stuart Beddie; [Washington] Dept. of
State, 1948 |
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Soviet
peace efforts on the eve of World War II (September 1938 - August
1939) Documents and records |
Editors:
V. M. Falin [and others];Moscow, Novosti Press Agency Pub. House, 1973 |
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British
documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the
Foreign Office confidential
print. Part II, from the First to the Second World War. Series D,
Latin America, 1914-1939 |
editor,
George Philip;[Bethesda, Md.] : University Publications of America,
c1989 -c1992 |
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Great
Britain. Foreign Office |
The
British war blue book : Miscellaneous no. 9 (1939) Documents
concerning German-Polish relations and the outbreak of hostilities
between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939 |
Presented
by the Secretary of State for Foreign affairs to Parliament by command
of His Majesty;
New York : Farrar &
Rinehart, [1939]
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British
documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the
Foreign Office confidential
print. Part III, From 1940 through 1945. Series D, Latin America |
general
editors, Paul Preston and Michael Partridge; editor, James Dunkerley; Bethesda, Md : University
Publications of America, 1998. |
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Great
Britain. Parliament.
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The
Penguin Hansard / taken verbatim from the House of Commons official
report of parliamentary debates. v.1-[autumn
1939/spring 1940- |
Harmondsworth
; New York : Penguin Books, [1940-
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Belgium.
Ministere des affaires etrangeres |
Belgium
: The official account of what happened 1939-1940 |
London
: Published for the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Evans Brothers, Limited, [1941] |
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Soviet
Union. Komissiia poizdaniiu diplomaticheskikh dokumentov |
Correspondence
between the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R. and
the Presidents of the U.S.A. and the Prime Ministers of Great Britain
during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 |
Moscow
: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1957 |
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Langsam,
Walter Consuelo, 1906-
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Historic
documents of World War
II |
Westport,
Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1977, c1958 |
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Woodrow
Wilson Foundation |
Official
documents; texts of selected documents on U.S. foreign policy,
1918-1952 |
New
York [1952?] |
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Voices
of history : great speeches and papers of the year 1941 |
introduction
by Charles A. Beard ; edited by Franklin Watts;New York : F. Watts,
c1942 |
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Voices
of history, 1942-43 : speeches and papers of Roosevelt, Churchill,
Stalin, Chiang, Hitler and other leaders delivered during 1942 |
Franklin
Watts, editor ; Barbara E. Leighton, associate editor;New York :
Gramercy Publishing Co., c1943 |
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Voices
of history, 1943-44 : speeches and papers of Roosevelt, Churchill,
Stalin, Chiang, Hitler and other leaders delivered during 1943 |
Franklin
Watts, editor ; Nathan Ausubel, associate editor.
New York : Gramercy Publishing
Co., c1944 |
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Gaulle,
Charles de, 1890-1970 |
Appel,
1940-1942 The
call to honour, 1940-1942 |
translated by Jonathan
Griffin; New
York : Viking, 1955 |
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Gaulle,
Charles de, 1890-1970 |
Memoires
de guerre War
memoirs |
translated
by Jonathan Griffin;
New York : Viking Press, 1955 |
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Mussolini,
Benito, 1883-1945 |
Tempo
del bastone e della carota The
fall of Mussolini : his own story |
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