Primary Sources on European History

Web-based Collections

There are many collections of primary historical materials located on the World Wide Web. A few good collections of documents are:

The Internet Modern History Sourcebook, created by Prof. Paul Halsall, Fordham University.

Hanover Historical Texts Project, created by the Hanover College History Department.

Eurodocs: primary historical documents from 24 Western European states.

Holocaust Sources: a variety of web sites and other electronic resources on the Nazi genocide.

The Victorian Web: documents on Victorian Britain.

Project Gutenberg: full text versions of thousands of public-domain classic books, e.g. works by Dante, Shakespeare, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Bartleby.com: full text versions of many classic literary and historical works.

The History Guide: an Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly primary source materials with a focus on Anglo-American history and the history of Central and Western Europe.

For additional bibliographical resources, see the Historical Materials web page of the Lewis & Clark College History Department.

A useful reference book for locating electronic research materials is The History Highway 3.0: A Guide to Internet Resources, edited by Dennis A. Trinkle and Scott A. Merriman (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2002). See also the other books in the series: The European History Highway (2002), The World History Highway (2002), and The U.S. History Highway (2002), also edited by Dennis A. Trinkle and Scott A. Merriman.

Print Collections of Primary Sources

Paul Beik, ed., The French Revolution (1970).

John W. Boyer and Julius Kirshner, general editors, The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, 9 vols. (1986-1987).

Richard Cobb and Colin Jones, eds., Voices of the French Revolution (1988).

Encyclopedia, Selections: Diderot, d'Alembert, and Others, translated by Nelly S. Hoyt and Thomas Cassirer (1965).

Adolf Hitler, Speeches and Proclamations, 1932-1945: The Chronicle of a Dictatorship, 3 vols., edited by Max Domarus (1990).

Lynn Hunt, ed., The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief History (1996).

John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith, eds., Nationalism (1994).

Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg, eds., The Weimar Republic Sourcebook (1994).

Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1945, translated by Martin Chalmers (1998-99).

A. Lentin, ed., Enlightened Absolutism (1760-1790) (1985).

Darline Gay Levy and Harriet Applewhite, eds., Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795 (1979).

Jeremy Noakes and Geoffrey Pridham, eds., Nazism 1919-1945: A Documentary Reader, 2nd ed., 4 vols. (1998)

Roger Price, ed., Documents on the French Revolution of 1848 (1996).

Raymond Phineas Stearns, ed., Pageant of Europe: Sources and Selections from the Renaissance to the Present Day, revised edition (1961).

John Hall Stewart, ed., A Documentary History of the French Revolution (1951).

Telford Taylor, The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir (1992).

Brian Tierney and Joan Scott, eds., Western Societies: A Documentary History, 2 vols. (1984).

H. R. Trevor-Roper, ed., Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944: His Private Conversations, 3rd ed., translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens (2000).

Michael Walzer, ed., Regicide and Revolution (1992)--speeches from the trial of Louis XVI.

 

 

Created by: Matthew Levinger
Updated: 3 May 2004