Finding Published Editions of Primary Sources
Even if you don't limit your search to "Archives/Manuscripts" in HOLLIS+, you can still find primary or documentary sources in the library. Many primary sources have been reproduced in published form, often with critical commentary and other aids for understanding them better.
To find published primary sources, search HOLLIS with a subject heading (as explained on page 1 of this guide), and add any of these subject extensions:
- Sources
- Early Works to 1800
- Personal narratives
- Diaries
- Newspapers
- Periodicals
- Facsimiles
- Posters
- Registers
- Biography (includes memoirs)
Example: Women revolutionaries -- Algeria -- Biography
15/15: la Tunisie en dessins by
Commentary by journalist and blogger Ines Oueslati, with cartoons on Tunisian society since the uprising of 2010
Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory by
The women who witnessed the French Revolution left us an invaluable legacy - some eighty accounts of what they saw and experienced.
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France by
"Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights," declared Olympe de Gouges in 1791. Throughout the French Revolution, women, inspired by a longing for liberty and equality, played a vital role in stoking the fervor and idealism of those years. In her compelling history of the Revolution, Lucy Moore paints a vivid portrait of six extraordinary women who risked everything for the chance to exercise their ambition and make their mark on history.
