Asian & African History
For additional assistance, contact Jennalyn Tellman
Finding Primary Resouces
What are Primary Sources? Finding Primary Sources on the Web? Evaluating Primary Sources.
An instructional page about how to idenitfy, find and evaluate primary sources.
UA Library Catalog
On the keyword search page, type your major search topic into the top line. On the second line, change "Any Field" to SUBJECT.
Type any of the following into the Search Box:
Sources, Interviews, Personal Narratives, Statistics, Diaries, Correspondence, Treaties, Archives. You can search more than one of these by putting "or" between words. e.g. sources or personal narratives or interviews
ARTstor
This non-profit repository contains hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data and the tools to actively use those images. Images are contained that are relevant to the times and place of this period. Images from Dunhuang and other images of Asian art are included.
Microfilm Collections for African, Asian and Middle Eastern History of primary documents at the University of Arizona Library.
In the First Person : English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.
Africa Research Central
African Primary Sources. This site links to bibliographies, directories, and guides to African repositories.
Digital South Asian Library (DSAL)
Center for Research Libraries. This site includes books, images, maps, indexes, statistics, finding aids and links to internet resources
Repositories of Primary Source
A listing of websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar with worldwide coverage.
Travelers in the Middle East Archive
The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) is a digital archive at Rice University that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. TIMEA offers electronic texts such as travel guides, museum catalogs, and travel narratives, photographic and hand-drawn images of Egypt, historical maps, and interactive GIS (Geographic Information Systems) maps of Egypt and Cyprus.
Maps are also primary sources. To find maps -
How do I Find Maps at the UA Library?
Search by country name or region [subject] and Maps [subject] and limit by dates
Atlases of historical maps can be found by searching the country or region [subject] and historical geography [subject] and maps [subject]
e.g. baja [subject] and maps [subject] and after 1900 before 1930
germany [subject] and historical geography [subject] and maps [subject] (finds historical atlases)