Mr. Morford

World History
Historical Fiction: Primary Sources

In addition to the sites below, use www.ixquick.com to construct searches. Use your topic plus any of the following keywords:

primary source
personal account
letters
memoir
diary
first hand
first person
photograph
painting
writings
map
oral history

For example:
holocaust+memoir

Web sites (in no particular order)

In the First Person
http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/firp.toc.places.aspx

Internet History Sourcebooks
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

Virtual Library History Central; many (but not all) resources are primary sources
http://vlib.iue.it/history/

Women in World History
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/sources.php

History Wiz; select your area and explore from there; many (but not all) links are to primary sources
http://www.historywiz.com/index.html

Primary Documents Online
http://library.csusm.edu/subject_guides/history/online_primary.asp