How Do I Find Primary Sources for a History Research Project?

In this fourth episode of our series on how historians research and write on historical topics, the panel explains how they identify relevant primary sources that will help them go beyond the existing secondary source literature. We will discuss different ways to search for relevant and useful primary sources, how to determine which primary sources might be more useful or important than others, and the historian’s ethical responsibility to be familiar with as much of the primary source base as possible.

Speaker timeline:

02:15 - CB Repass 04:14 - Eric Greisinger 05:11 - Ryan Tripp 06:00 - Matt Schandler 10:40 - Rob Denning 13:23 - Matt Schandler 15:20 - Allison Millward 17:18 - Eric Greisinger 17:32 - Rob Denning 19:08 - CB Repass 21:11 - Ryan Tripp 21:34 - Rob Denning 22:28 - Eric Greisinger