HIST 9: Native American History & Public Practices (Lovely, Fall 2025): Finding Primary Sources

The library subscribes to hundreds of databases that contain primary sources. Below is a very select list of these; to find others, go to the A-Z list of databases  and use the limiters illustrated below. You can also change "Primary Sources" to "Images" or other source types.

The California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) is a division of the Special Research Collections of the UCSB Library. CEMA is a permanent program that advances scholarship in ethnic studies through its varied collections of primary research materials. These resources contain primary and archival sources from libraries and archival institutions in California including Calisphere, Online Archive of California, and UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive.

• CEMA Collections

• William Wyles Collection of California and American West History, Politics, and Cultures

To identify primary resources in UC Library Search, type "sources" or "personal narratives" or the specific type of primary document you are looking for AND [your topic] modeling from the examples below:

slave* AND "personal narratives"   

Quotation marks will search your terms as a phrase.

The asterisk * will search for alternate endings to a word: slave* will find slave, slaves, slavery, slaveholder