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📚 Featured Resource: Early English Books Online 📚

Studying the Reformation or post-Reformation? Dive into nearly 150,000 digitized rare books published in English before 1700—all from your laptop!

#EarlyEnglishBooks #ReformationStudies #PrimarySources
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A soldier’s diary, 1863: compassion in a contraband camp—food, shelter, literacy, purpose. The war for union was also a fight for human worth. #PrimarySources #HistoryMatters #TheCentumDiary www.etsy.com/listing/4355...
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This Imperial Chinese History class from @SFSU had a great time looking at our antiquarian maps and other sources at Sutro Library. These kinds of interactions with physical materials provides a lot of students with a tangible way to understand the past. #primarysources #sfsuhistoryclass #libraries
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Had a great #FIELDGuide session today at #TXCSS2025! #historicalthinking #primarysources @inquiry #edtech All the good stuff. Got the chance to learn alongside some amazing TX #socialstudies teachers - thx! @txcss.bsky.social @essdack.bsky.social @madisonteacher.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:57 PM
A soldier’s diary, 1863: compassion in a contraband camp—food, shelter, literacy, purpose. The war for union was also a fight for human worth. #PrimarySources #HistoryMatters #TheCentumDiary www.etsy.com/listing/4355...
October 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
@librarycongress For those who love documentary evidence: The Centum Diary preserves an 1863 Union soldier’s entries (52nd Illinois), reprinted in 1963 and newly edited. A clean lineage of primary text → newspaper → book. www.amazon.com/Centum-Diary...
#PrimarySources
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Yesterday I had 2 classes reviewing #primarysources @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social, a great opportunity to show how history can be documented as it happens: #pandemic #ephemera collected from the streets of San Francisco.
October 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
#OTD in 1886, the Statue of Liberty was unveiled to national celebration. Newspapers marveled at its scale—“the head of the statue will hold comfortably forty persons.” How did the press shape Liberty’s early symbolism?

#History #PrimarySources #StatueOfLiberty
October 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Part 1! Come behind the scenes to look at the variety of primary source materials on Mexican history at Sutro library dating from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. #mexicanhistory #libraries #archives #specialcollections #primarysources
October 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
How about this schoolmaster's log book as #DissertationInspiration?

See this book in person at our Dissertation Inspiration Drop In on Friday 24th October, 2-4pm, or email us to make a research appointment.

#primarysources #Victorianschools #Victorianchildren #archives #dissertation
October 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A soldier’s diary, 1863: compassion in a contraband camp—food, shelter, literacy, purpose. The war for union was also a fight for human worth. #PrimarySources #HistoryMatters #TheCentumDiary www.etsy.com/listing/4355...
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
New blog post is up featuring the Film Collections available on Internet Archive. Everything from old Hollywood to pre-movie newsreels. You'll be surprised what's there!
www.entrelacinfo.com/blog/film-co...
#OpenAccess #PrimarySources #Film #Nonfiction #BookResearch #Movies #History
Film Collections at Internet Archive — Entrelac
A deep dive into the Film Collections on Internet Archive.
www.entrelacinfo.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New blog post is up! Creepy. Eerie. Unsettling. Why do some things that we would normally love give us shivers up our spines? www.entrelacinfo.com/blog/the-eerie
#OpenAccess #Resources #PrimarySources #ResearchTips #LibraryResearch #Circus #Marionettes #Dolls
The Eerie — Entrelac
Creepy. Eerie. Unsettling. Why do some things that we would normally love give us shivers up our spines?
www.entrelacinfo.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Come and discover a multitude of resources and opportunities available this month from the Library of Congress and the #Teaching with #PrimarySources Program! mailchi.mp/tpsteachersn...
October 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
A soldier’s diary, 1863: compassion in a contraband camp—food, shelter, literacy, purpose. The war for union was also a fight for human worth. #PrimarySources #HistoryMatters #TheCentumDiary www.etsy.com/listing/4355...
October 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Historians find humanity in unexpected places. Our latest Readex blog uncovers a soldier’s “misadventure in comedy” — a 19th-century account that reveals how humor, discomfort, and duty intersected in military life: https://ow.ly/uoIC50XaF4F
🗃️ #PrimarySources #AmericanHistory
October 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A soldier’s diary, 1863: compassion in a contraband camp—food, shelter, literacy, purpose. The war for union was also a fight for human worth. #PrimarySources #HistoryMatters #TheCentumDiary www.etsy.com/listing/4355...
October 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Blogging this month about Halloween-related (ish) open access resources. Today's post is about the FBI Vault, because what's scarier than criminals? www.entrelacinfo.com/blog/fbivault #openaccess #researchtips #primarysources #authors #nonfictionwriting #bookwriting #history
October 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Tell me that you *are* using the newly redesigned Chronicling America digital newspaper site from the @librarycongress.bsky.social. Cause if you're not, we can't stay friends. It's just that good. loc.gov/item/prn-25-045 #sschat #socialstudies #primarysources
October 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A soldier’s diary, 1863: compassion in a contraband camp—food, shelter, literacy, purpose. The war for union was also a fight for human worth. #PrimarySources #HistoryMatters #TheCentumDiary www.etsy.com/listing/4355...
October 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Maps! #inquiry! #primarysources! Hands-on materials! Free stuff! Looking forward to learning alongside #txcss2025 teachers in a few weeks at #FIELDGuide session. You're gonna walk away smarter! #sschat @socialstudiestx.bsky.social @madisonteacher.bsky.social @corwinpress.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A soldier’s diary, 1863: compassion in a contraband camp—food, shelter, literacy, purpose. The war for union was also a fight for human worth. #PrimarySources #HistoryMatters #TheCentumDiary www.etsy.com/listing/4355...
October 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
From @uofsclibraries.bsky.social: “There are treasures you are not going to find if you do your research online”: A conversation with Drew Gilpin Faust about the South Caroliniana Library

sc.edu/about/office...

#SpecialCollections #ResearchLibraries #PrimarySources
October 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Happy International Coffee Day! ☕️

Kick back with this episode and ponder days gone by when a trip to the coffee house might conincide with an auction by candle or a dolphin dissection...🕯

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#historypodcast #sensory #thegeorgians #georgianlondon #primarysources
The Georgians - Wake Up & Smell The Coffee! (Georgian Coffee House Culture)
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October 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Discovered cruise books. It is truly amazing the resources out there for free. #primarysources #USNavalHistory
Found Naval Support Activity DaNang and get a glimpse of the environment sailors and marines experienced

www.history.navy.mil/content/hist...
www.history.navy.mil
September 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM