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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
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November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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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
castatelibrary.bsky.social
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
glennwiebe.bsky.social
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
mjgranger1.bsky.social
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
mjgranger1.bsky.social
@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
adangriego.bsky.social
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
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#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
A collage featuring 19th-century newspaper clippings and illustrations celebrating the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty in 1886. At the center is a color advertisement for “Pratt’s Astral Oil” showing the illuminated statue holding her torch aloft. Surrounding it are three black-and-white illustrations: people standing inside the statue’s head; a man seated beside Liberty’s massive foot; and a view of ships gathered for the naval parade during the unveiling. A newspaper headline reads, “Liberty Unveiled. A Monument to the Friendship of Two Nations.” The collage highlights public fascination with the monument’s size and symbolism. Text at the bottom credits American Broadsides and Ephemera, 1749–1900 and Early American Newspapers, 1690–1922.
October 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
castatelibrary.bsky.social
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
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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
mjgranger1.bsky.social
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
jcwsearcher.bsky.social
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.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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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?
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October 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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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
mjgranger1.bsky.social
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
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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
A black-and-white image of an 1800s newspaper titled Fort Garland Herald, edited by H. A. Ellis. The issue includes several short, humorous, and sarcastic local news items under headings such as “Local Intelligence,” “A Scurvy Bummer,” “Personal,” and “Miscellaneous.” Mentions include Captain Bean leaving for the East, a “snivelling brute” editor of another paper, a missing pigskin tippet, and local military figures like General John S. Mason and Chaplain La Tourette.
October 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
mjgranger1.bsky.social
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
jcwsearcher.bsky.social
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
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October 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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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
mjgranger1.bsky.social
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
glennwiebe.bsky.social
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
mjgranger1.bsky.social
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
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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

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#SpecialCollections #ResearchLibraries #PrimarySources
photo of Drew Gilpin Faust in front of a bookcase
October 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
sistoryhistory.bsky.social
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
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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...
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September 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM