Getting Help with Research
Chat online with a librarian 24 hours/7 days a week.
Email us through our web form with your questions.
Replies sent within 24 hours (except weekend and holidays).
Schedule a Research Consultation.
Best for in-depth assistance with complex research assignments. Individual and Group appointments available.
Visit a reference desk at one of Hunter College Libraries' branches.
Phone numbers can be found on branch website pages linked below.
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Primary Sources in the Library
The library has a number of primary source databases (see link). Some of these are proprietary, and will only be available to you as a Hunter student. Others are on the open web, and will be available to you -- and your students -- outside of your Hunter affiliation. For questions, please contact the library.
Finding Primary Sources on the Internet
There are many digitized collections of primary sources across the internet -- newspapers, photographs, oral histories, and more. Unfortunately, there is not one single site that consolidates for easy searching, but we have some suggestions.
If there is a specific person or historic event that you'd like to search for, append your search with "digital archives" to locate archives that might have materials you can use. You can also append with what you're looking for (oral histories, or historic photographs, for example).
Alternatively, use the curated collections we've listed on our Primary Source Collections page!
Education Resources
For help with Education research more generally, please see our Education guide below