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: 2. Documents produced to record
events at the time of the event: 3. Primary sources also include
oral histories or recollections of a participant to an event. |
Written Primary Sources
| E263 .N6053 1970 | Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County |
| E601 .D38 1998 | Dear Sister: the Civil War Letters of the Brothers Gould |
| E621 .H76 1994 | A Surgeon's Civil War: the Letters and Diary of Daniel M. Holt, M.D. |
| Ref. F122 .D63 | Documentary History of the State of New York |
| Ref. F122 .D66 | Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York |
| F122 .J3 | Historic Chronicles of New Amsterdam |
| F127 .L8 P3 | Up-lot Reveries: an Oral History of the North Fork |
| F128.44 .S8325 1988 | Diary of George Templeton Strong |
| F129 .B6 B88 |
Documents of the Town of Brookhaven |
| F129 .O98 C66 | Diary of Mary Cooper: Life on a Long Island Farm |
| G545 .B879 1993 | She Went A-Whaling: the Journal of Martha Smith Brewer Brown |
| KF223.H8 H67 1971 | New York Conspiracy |
| SH383.2 .B76 1988 | In the Wake of Whales: The Whaling Journals of Capt. Edwin Peter Brown |
Titles Which Refer to Primary Sources
| F122 .K3 | Newcastle's New York |
| F122 .S66 U6 | The Loyal Whig: William Smith of New York and Quebec |
| F127 .F5 F47 1974 | Fishers Island, N.Y. 1614-1925 |
| F128.3 .W48 1987 | New York: a Physical History |
| F128.37 .R6 2001 | Cityscapes: a History of New York in Images |
| F128.4 .D265 1985 | A Rumor of Revolt: the "Great Negro Plot" in Colonial New York |
| F128.44 .B47 1990 | New York City Draft Riots |
| F128.64 .L6 B5713 1985 | Statue of Liberty: the First Hundred Years |
| F128.65 .T5 2006 | On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square. |
| F128.9 .I8 E83 1985 | Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower East Side |
| F128.9 J5 L69 1988 | Frankfurt on the Hudson: the German-Jewish Community of Washington Heights |
| NA6233 .N5 W6742 2003 | City in the Sky: the Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center |
| T785 .B1 G45 | 1939, the Lost World of the Fair |
| TF302 .N7 S35 2001 | Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York |
| TF847 .N5 H66 2004 | 722 Miles: the Building of the Subways and how they Transformed New York. |
| TG25 .C328 R44 1990 | Bridges of Central Park |
| VM299.6 .W45 1993 | An Island's Trade: Nineteenth-Century Shipbuilding on Long Island |
Titles Containing Pictures as Primary Sources
| F127 .N2 M37 1999 | Nassau County at 100 |
| F127 .Q3 S48 1982 | Queens: a Pictorial History |
| F127 .S9 V3 | Suffolk, a Pictorial History |
| Ref. F128.3 .H65 2005 | Historical Atlas of New York City |
| F128.3 .L8 | Manhattan Moves Uptown: an Illustrated History |
| F128.37 .S55 | Lost New York |
| Ref. F128.67 .F4 B8 | Fifth Avenue Old and New, 1824-1924 |
| F129.B7 O42 | Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865-1929 |
| HE2791 .L8482 M77 2003 | Long Island Rail Road Stations |
| NA735 .N5 H78 | Classic New York |
| PS509 .N5 G6 | New York, New York: the City as Seen by Masters of Art and Literature |
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 Project | 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 |
| New York City Documents | 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.
