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Curriculum & Teaching: Social Studies

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