Research Guide for New York State Primary Sources
Primary Sources are works generated at the time of the event. Primary sources include:
1. Documents produced by the events themselves: government documents, treaties, reports of official bodies, letters, and speeches.
2. Documents produced to record events at
the time of the event: chronicles, diaries, journalists' reports, interviews,
drawings, photographs, tape recordings and video tapes.
Primary sources also include oral histories or recollections of a participant
to an event. The easiest way to find primary sources on your topic is
to find a good scholarly book on the topic and consult the list of references
at the end of the book.
Written Primary Sources
| Local History NY E263 .N6 O53 1970 | Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County |
| Local History NY F122 .J3 1968 | Historic Chronicles of New Amsterdam |
| Local History NY F128.52 .B45 1960 | Meyer Berger's New York |
| Main KF223 .H8 H67 1971 | New York Conspiracy |
Titles Which Refer to Primary Sources
| Local History NY TG25 .C328 R44 1990 | Bridges of Central Park |
| Main F128.44 .B47 1990 | New York City Draft Riots |
| Main F128.9 .I8 E83 1985 | Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower East Side |
| Main T785 .B1 G45 1995 | 1939, the Lost World of the Fair |
Titles Containing Pictures as Primary Sources
| Local History NY F127 .Q3 S48 1982 | Queens: a Pictorial History |
| Local History NY F128.3 .L8 1976 | Manhattan Moves Uptown |
| Local History NY F128.37 .K52 1977 | King's Views of New York |
| Local History NY F128.67 .F4 B8 1924 | Fifth Avenue Old and New, 1824-1924 |
| Local History NY F129 .B7 O42 1978 | Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865-1929 |
| Main F128.3 .K6 1953 | Columbia Historical Portrait of New York |
For additional print resources, search the St.
Joseph's College Libraries Online Catalog
Sources for New York History Articles
The following databases may be useful for this subject area. To use the
following databases on campus,
click on the Journal
Articles / Database link.
| ACLS Humanities ebook Projects | New York Times Historical (Proquest) | Original Sources |
New York History Related Websites
| Making of America | Digital library of primary sources in American
history. There are a number of online books dealing with New York
history. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp |
| Research guide and links on the History
of New York City compiled by Columbia University http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/dsc/nyc.html |
|
| New York City Subways | Section on sidebar that links to the history
of the subway system. http://www.nycsubway.org/ |
| New
York State Archives |
http://www.archives.nysed.gov/aindex.shtml |
| New York State Bridges | History of various New York State Bridges. http://www.nysba.state.ny.us/Index%20Page/bridge_histories.htm |
| New
York State Library |
Gateway to newspapers and documents in New
York State http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/ |
| New
York State History |
Gateway to New York State historical sites
on the web http://www.nyhistory.com/ |
| One
Hundred Years |
A New York Times special feature; 100 years
of New York City history http://www.nytimes.com/specials/nyc100 |
Check Selected Websites for additional subject specific websites.
