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Russian & German 4840W / German 7840: Totalitarianism and Culture: Primary Sources

Finding Primary Sources in the Library Catalog

There are several ways to find primary sources in the Library catalog.

  1. Limit by publication date to the period you are studying.
  2. Search for the works of a person from that time period by searching for them as an author, last name first
  3. Include certain words in a subject search: 
  • sources
  • correspondence
  • sermons
  • diaries
  • personal narratives
  • interviews
  • quotations
  • collections
  • speeches
  • manuscripts
  • archives
  • conduct manuals

For example: "world war" and SU: sources.

More keywords identifying primary sources in Library of Congress Subject Headings

Some online collections

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