Using OSCAR to Find Primary Sources
Using The Library catalog to find Primary Sources
You can find collected primary sources in books, which can be found through the library's main catalog search box, on the Library home page. Try searching for your topic and the search term "primary" or "primary source". You can also do a search for a specific type of primary source by using a search term for your topic and they primary source type. For example, if you want to find some diaries or personal letters from people alive at the time of the French Revolution, you might try the terms "French Revolution" and "Diary OR Diaries OR Letters:"
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Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
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French Revolution Primary Sources in the Library CatalogThis is a list of over 15 books that specifically contain primary sources from the period of the French Revolution available through the library.
Your Own Keyword Search
Keywords that represent primary sources include: correspondence, papers, speeches, memoirs, personal narratives, documents, sources. Combine one or more of those words with a word representing your French Revolution inquiry (person, group, fact, concept)
Example Search Structures:
feuillant and sources
Barère and memoir
Some Books with Primary Sources from the catalog
This is an excellent ebook that has something for everyone in terms of breadth of French Revolution documents and other sources.
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The French Revolution
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ISBN: 1647920906Publication Date: 2023-01-20Ebook containing a wealth of primary sources concerning the French Revolution. Browse the table of contents to locate pertinent sources or click "read online" to search the full text. -
The French Revolution
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Call Number: DC141 .P413An excellent French Revolution history including primary sources.
Women and the French Revolution
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Memoirs of Madame Roland
Call Number: DC146.R7 A3 1990ISBN: 1559210141On 1 June 1973 Madame Roland was arrested for her involvement in French Revolution and on 8 November she went to the guillotine. This text concerns her upbringing in a Parisian bourgeois family and her marriage to the bureaucrat Jean-Marie Roland de la Platiere. It discusses the period when she and her husband were leaders of the Girondin party."
Featured Source
Imaging the French Revolution:
Depictions of the French Revolutionary Crowd
French Democrats surprizing the Royal Runaways. Published June 27, 1791
Source: Museum of the French Revolution 89.100
Images
Images of the French Revolution (Stanford University and Bibliotheque Nationale de France)
ARTStor
Use this database to find paintings of the Revolutionary era. It contains more than 1.9 million high-quality digital images and reproductions of a wide range of works of art from all times and places throughout the world. You can search by names of artists, or just do a search on "French Revolution".
BERG Fashion Library
This database provides a wide range of information on dress and body adornment worldwide throughout history. Do a search on "French Revolution" or for specific garments such as the "Phrygian bonnet", the "cockade", or the "sans culottes trousers" to learn fascinating things about these symbols of the revolution.
Songs
Revolutionary Songs (from the Liberty, Equality, Fraternity site)
-To learn more about the songs of the French Revolution, check out this e-book:
Singing the French Revolution: Popular Culture and Politics, 1787-1799