Now is a great time to be researching history! More and more content once accessible only in special collections and archives is now being scanned, digitized, and shared on the web. This page will assist you in locating primary sources for your topic
A primary source in history is an artifact or document that is contemporary to the time period you are studying.
Search Library Search to find to locate collections of primary sources.
"Renaissance AND sources"
"Reformation AND documents"
Also try:
"Personal narratives"
"Correspondence"
"Diaries"
When you find a relevant source, click on the subject heading in Library Search to find more items on the subject.
Search "Library Search" to find books by a particular person using the "Advanced Search" Author/Creator field, e.g. "Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564." You might also want to limit the language to "English".
Project Gutenberg is a collection of over 30,000 e-texts in the Public Domain. Use the "Author" and "Title" searches to locate works by a particular person.
Books published before 1926 are in the Public Domain, so the full-text of many historical books may be found via Google Book Search.
Search for recordings of Renaissance and Reformation music in Naxos.
Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world´s largest online classical music library. It offers streaming access to more than 163,000 CDs with more than 2,500,000 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. New CDs are added weekly