Finding Primary Sources in the UNF Library
Using the Online Library Catalog

UNF Library Catalog

Use these subject headings along with a keyword in a basic search. Then narrow your search further using the facets on the left of the screen.

correspondence
soldiers and correspondence
presidents and correspondence
personal narratives
speeches, addresses, etc.
diaries

Try this search. It also gets you correspondence (look at the subject headings in the full record).

papers of george washington

Try this as a title search. Then link to subject headings in the full record and then use the author facet to narrow to a particular person.

papers of

Congressional hearings are primary sources.

senate and hearing and tobacco
house of representatives and hearing and tobacco
committee hearing and tobacco

The following will not always return primary documents, but enough to be extremely useful -- and, it leads you to sources that will tell you about primary sources and give you citations and locations.

united states history and sources

Online Sources

UNF subscribes to online research databases that may include primary sources. If you are off campus, you must log in to the library before clicking on a database below.

Law cases are primary documents. You can get the full text from LexisNexis Academic . For example, you can get the full text of the Amistad slave rebellion case. Case citation 40 U.S. 518.
Travels in the New South I and II, 1865-1955. The microfiche are on the 3rd Floor. Here is the online list of titles with microfiche numbers.
Travel accounts provide a primary source for researchers in many fields. This collection is based on Thomas D. Clark’s bibliography and offers various accounts of life in the post-Civil War South. This collection details the state of Southern culture during three-quarters of a century as the South continued its struggle back to equality with the rest of the nation. The works include the post-war years, 1865-1900, an era of reconstruction and readjustment; and 1900-1955, an era of change and renewal.
American State Papers, 1789-1838. Legislative and executive documents, many originating from the important period between 1789 and the beginning of the "U.S. Congressional Set" in 1817.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817- presently covers through 1926 but is extended monthly. Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound journals.

Many libraries and government agencies are making their primary sources available through the Internet.