Books
To find book primary sources, use library catalogs like Barton and WorldCat.
- Subheadings
such as "correspondence," "sources," "personal narratives," and "speeches" can
point to primary sources.
- Pair these subheadings with keywords or
topical subject headings in Barton to identify relevant sources in the
MIT Libraries.
- See this table for other possible subheadings.
Online Texts
- The ARTFL Project Contains several thousand French-language texts from the 13th to the 20th centuries in literature, philosophy, arts, sciences, such as Diderot and D'Alambert's Encyclopédie and CRL Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848.
- Euro Docs: History of France - Primary Documents Links to online primary source documents in French history.
Compiled by Richard Hacken, Brigham Young University Library. - French Studies Web: French History - Documents, Data Files, Primary Literature Links to online primary source documents in French history.
From the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. - Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert - Collaborative Translation Project An ongoing project to translate the articles of the Encyclopedia from French into English.
Sponsored by the University of Michigan. - Google Book Search Many thousands of searchable books digitized by Google in collaboration with libraries and publishers.
- Gallica Provides access to tens of thousands of digital works (major editions, journals, dictionaries) and images. Texts are in French.
From the Bibliotheque nationale de France. - Super Enlightenment Contains thirty-six texts written in French between 1716 and 1835.
Sponsored by Stanford University.
Images
- ARTstor A digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
- CESAR Database French plays, people, and performance spaces (17th and 18th centuries).
Hosted by Oxford Brookes University (UK).
Primary Sources at Nearby Libraries
- Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO) Every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the 18th century.
At Tufts, Wellesley, Brandeis, and Boston College. - Making of the Modern World A comprehensive digital collection for the study of early economic, political, business, and social history for the period 1460-1850.
At Tufts. - British Periodicals Online Hundreds of digitized British periodicals from the 17th through the early 20th centuries.
At Boston College. - Times Digital Archive Searchable online version of the Times of London.
At Tufts, Wellesley, and Boston College.
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Anthropology, History, Philosophy, and Science, Technology, & Society
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