LibGuides: History: Primary Sources by Era or Topic: French Revolution

Primary Source Collections

Collections of several types of primary sources curated around a topic or theme.

Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
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Search large collection of English language newspapers, magazines, books published before 1800, and archival collections.
Includes 19th Century UK Periodicals, Archives of Sexuality & Gender (LGBTQ History), British Library Newspapers, The Economist (1843-2014), Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana (1500-1926), China and the Modern World, London Times Digital Archive, and London Times Literary Supplement.

French Revolution Digital Archive
Includes the Archives parlementaires and a corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.
French Political Pamphlets
The collection of French Political Pamphlets in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University features more than 2,100 pamphlets published between 1547 and 1626.
French Revolution Pamphlets
The French Revolution Pamphlets digital collection consists of pamphlets produced from 1779 to 1815. Although the French Revolution happened in the decade ranging from 1789 to 1799, this collection of pamphlets documents the time leading up to the revolution through the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815).
Links to principal documents of the French Revolution
English translations of primary documents
Digital Facsimiles from the Lafayette Collection (Cornell)
Digital Facsimiles Family and Private Life | The American Revolution | His Friendship with America | His Guiana Plantation and Emancipation The French Revolution (1789-1799) | French Politics (1800-1834) | Lafayette and Political & Social Causes
Digital Facsimiles from The La Forte Collection (Cornell)
Family and Private Life | The American Revolution | His Friendship with America | His Guiana Plantation and Emancipation | The French Revolution (1789-1799) | French Politics (1800-1834) | Lafayette and Political & Social Causes
Napoleonic Digital Library
Newberry French Revolution Collection
Digitized subset of larger collection indexed by author and title (U Chicago)
Newberry Library digitized French revolutionary pamphlets
Archive.org interface to Newberry Library collections: material published between 1780 and 1810 from the French Revolution Collection (FRC), the Louis XVI Trial and Execution Collection, and several smaller collections
Napoleonica
Napoleonic primary sources

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America This link opens in a new window
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1400-1950s
Primary sources for American Indian history in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books from pre-contact through the mid-20th century.
Empire Online This link opens in a new window
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1492-1969
Primary sources about British colonies in Africa, North and South America, Australia, and South Asia, 1492-1969.
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement and Colonial Encounters This link opens in a new window
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1650-1920
Primary sources like expedition records, letters, diaries and government records from Europeans creating colonies in North America, Africa, and Australasia.
ARTFL This link opens in a new window
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Includes Histoires de la Revolution Francaise, cross-searchable French language histories of the revolution.

Use the date range limit to narrow your search to a relevant time period.

America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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1690-1923
Historical newspapers from every state in the U.S.
British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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1732-1950
National and regional British newspapers representing different political and cultural views.

Mercure de France, 1672-1810

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new window
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1603-1800
Newspapers, pamphlets, proclamations, and newsbooks from the British Library.
Also searchable in Gale Primary Sources.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new window
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1672-1737
British newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets from the Bodleian Library.
South Carolina Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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1732-1775, 1777-1780
The South Carolina Gazette published news and details of life and trade in America during the years prior to independence.
Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019 This link opens in a new window
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1785-2019
The Times (London) newspaper.

Search for articles published in popular magazines and journals from different times in history.

Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
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Combined search of all Gale archival collections, including newspapers and 18th and 19th century collections.
Allows simultaneous searching of British Library Newspapers (1780-1950), London Times (1785-1985), ECCO (1700-1800), NCCO (1800-1900), Sabin Americana (1500-1926) and other Gale primary source collections.
Includes 19th Century UK Periodicals, Archives of Sexuality & Gender (LGBTQ History), British Library Newspapers, The Economist (1843-2014), Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana (1500-1926), China and the Modern World, London Times Digital Archive, and London Times Literary Supplement.
American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new window
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1740-1940
Magazines and journals published in the U.S. mostly before 1900.
British Periodicals Collection I and II This link opens in a new window
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1681-1920
Popular British periodicals mostly from the 19th century.
Eighteenth Century Journals This link opens in a new window
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1685-1835
Literary, satirical, political, religious and theatrical magazines and newspapers from Britain, Ireland, Scotland, India and the Caribbean.

French revolutionary material, Maclure collection, University of Pennsylvania
Use with print guide: The Maclure collection of French revolutionary materials.
UNLV Microforms, 2nd Floor Z 2179 .P4; reel index is at Micro DC141 .F76 1966
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Resources in French.
Histoire parlementaire de la révolution française ou, Journal des assemblées nationales, depuis 1789 jusqu'en 1815 : contenant le narration des événements ... précédée d'une introduction sur l'histoire de France jusqu'à la convocation des États-généraux
200 microfiche, call number DC141 .B8 1834a
English cartoons and satirical prints 1320-1832, in the British Museum
Check online first!! An Online Index provides access to much of this collection and related digitized collections. Materials from this collection are identified with a call number beginning PC1. Online Index to English Cartoons at the Library of Congress
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This 21 reel collection contains the political and personal satirical prints in the British Museum. Each print is numbered. Full text description of each print can be found on microfilm (NE55.L7 A3 1984, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum Division I). Finding Aids: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum Division I on microfilm (NE55.L7 A3 1984).

These collections reprint letters and diary entries that have been previously published in books. Use the Browse Indexes to find references to specific historical or life events.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
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1500-1900.
Searchable collection of women's letters and diaries.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
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1770-1950
Diaries, journals, and letters written by famous and not-so-famous North American women.

Souvenirs d'Amérique et de France, par une créole

Digitized collections of books published during different time periods.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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1701-1800
Books on all subjects published in English between 1701 and 1800.
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas This link opens in a new window
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Good for: Finding primary source materials on exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and more.
Contains: Historical books, pamphlets, serials and other documents about North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean.
Dates covered: 1500-1926
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 This link opens in a new window
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1639-1800
Complete books, pamphlets and broadsides published in North America before 1800.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
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1475-1700
Books on all subjects published in England between 1475 and 1700.
Hathi Trust This link opens in a new window
Access to nearly any public domain (pre-1924) book owned and scanned by a library. UNLV users can login with their ACE accounts and download entire "full view" books/documents.

Gallica digital library (Bibliotheque nationale de France)
Wide variety of digitized French language historical resources.
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in French
The French Revolution, Thomas Carlyle
Edited selections from Carlyle's history

about books of this era

The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769-1794
Maps the trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a celebrated Swiss publishing house that operated between 1769 and 1794. As the STN sold the works of other publishers alongside its own editions, their archives can be considered a representative source for studying the history of the book trade and dissemination of ideas in the late Enlightenment.

Official government publications, including laws, treaties, and records of legislative proceedings.

Congressional Publications (ProQuest Congressional) This link opens in a new window
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1789-
U.S. legislative information, including access to many full-text Congressional publications, bills, laws, regulations, committee information, and more. Includes the U.S. Serial Set.
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information, including access to many full-text Congressional publications, bills, laws, regulations, committee information, and more. Additionally, searchers can retrieve CIS Legislative Histories for public laws. Contains an index of congressional publications from 1789 to the present and locate information about members and committees. Statutes at Large and Congressional Indexes from 1789-1969 are included.
Digital U.S. Bills and Resolutions 1789-2016 This link opens in a new window
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1789-present
Contains searchable full text of all U.S. bills and resolutions from 1789 to the present.
Individual bills may be directly accessed or searched via a composite bill profile page that links out to its various versions.
HeinOnline Law Journal Library This link opens in a new window
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Online law journals and full text federal legal materials.
HeinOnline is an image-based, fully searchable database made up primarily of law journals. Newer content is not added until the end of a volume year so the most recent issues are likely a year old. Coverage varies by title, but most sources go back to volume one. In addition to journals, it also contains treaties, the federal register, some classic treatises and some federal legislative materials. Subscription to HeinOnline is sponsored by the Wiener-Rogers Law Library.
Making of Modern Law (MOML) This link opens in a new window
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1600-1926
Cross-search five Making of Modern Law databases: Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law 1600-1926, Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources 1620-1926, Making of Modern Law: Treatises, 1800-1926, and Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926.
Routledge English Historical Documents This link opens in a new window
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476 -1914
Primary sources with editorial commentary representing significant British historical documents, like treaties, statutes, declarations, government and cabinet proceedings and more.
U.K. Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new window
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1801-2000
Bills, reports, correspondence and command papers all highlight Britain's role in the political, social, economic and foreign policy arenas.

Digitized photos and art images.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog This link opens in a new window
Images held by the Prints and Photographs division of the Library of Congress.
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library of Congress. About 90% of the records are accompanied by one or more digital images. In some collections, only thumbnail images display to those searching outside the Library of Congress because of potential rights considerations.
ARTstor This link opens in a new window
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Art digital images and related data.
A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, social sciences and related data; the tools to actively use those images; and a restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content user.

Getty Search Gateway
Search digitized images from the Getty collection
Napoleonic Satires
Print caricatures and satires with a Napoleonic theme.

These links allow you to search across multiple databases at the same time.

Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
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Includes 19th Century UK Periodicals, Archives of Sexuality & Gender (LGBTQ History), British Library Newspapers, The Economist (1843-2014), Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana (1500-1926), China and the Modern World, London Times Digital Archive, and London Times Literary Supplement.
Historical U.S. Newspapers from ProQuest This link opens in a new window
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1841-2000 with some more recent
Search all ProQuest U.S. historical newspaper collections simultaneously.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender‎ (1909 - 1975)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune‎ (1849 - 1993)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Christian Science Monitor‎ (1908 - 2003)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times‎ (1881 - 1993)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times‎ (1851 - 2013)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune‎ (1841 - 1922)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post‎ (1877 - 2000)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: U.S. West, including Reno Gazette-Journal (1876-2008), San Francisco Examiner (1889-2007), and Spokane Statesman-Review (1894-2009)
Historical Periodicals from ProQuest This link opens in a new window
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1740-1940 with some more recent
Search all ProQuest historical periodical collections simultaneously.
American Periodicals‎ (1740 - 1940)
British Periodicals‎ (1681 - 1939)
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive‎ (1880 - 2000)
The Harper's Bazaar Archive‎ (1867 - current)
Periodicals Archive Online‎
The Vogue Archive‎
Women's Magazine Archive‎ (1846 - 2005)
The Women's Wear Daily Archive‎
Readex AllSearch This link opens in a new window
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1639-1922
Combined search of American historical newspapers (1690-1922), printed books (1639-1819), and pamphlets and ephemera (1749-1922).
Search all collections of historical primary sources from Readex simultaneously: America's Historical Newspapers, American Broadsides and Ephemera; American Pamphlets; Early American Imprints (Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker).

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