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This wall painting found in the Roman city of Pompeii is an example of a primary source about people in Pompeii in Roman times (portrait of Terentius Neo).. In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called an original source) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time ...
The list of collections of Crusader sources provides those collections of original sources for the Crusades from the 17th century through the 20th century. These include collections, regesta and bibliotheca, and provide valuable insight into the historiography of the Crusades though the identification of the various editions and translations of the sources, as well as commentary on these sources.
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History is a digital history portal that offers links to online facsimiles, transcriptions, and translations of European primary historical sources. The sponsoring organization is the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University , where it was begun in 1995 by Richard Hacken, European Studies ...
The authors present this history from a Dakota point of view, explicitly against the "dominan[t] non-Dakota master story about the Dakota people". [2] It is notable for its approach to interpreting Dakota oral history, primary sources, and previously published history materials in combination. Westerman and White outline their method in the ...
Many documents that are produced today, such as personal letters, pictures, contracts, newspapers, and medical records, would be considered valuable historical documents in the future. However most of these will be lost in the future since they are either printed on ordinary paper which has a limited lifespan, or even stored in digital formats ...
The site opened with approximately 600 entries, 100 speeches, 80 full text primary documents and seven major timelines. New sections that were added included New Perspectives, which featured accounts and descriptions of important but little-known events in African-American history.
History (derived from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía) 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') is the systematic study and documentation of the past. History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyse past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect.
Early Sources of Scottish History, A.D. 500 to 1286, 2 volumes (1922), [265] by Scottish historian Alan Orr Anderson (1879–1958). [266] Fifteenth century English books; a bibliography of books and documents printed in England and of books for the English market printed abroad (1917). [267] By British bibliographer Edward Gordon Duff (1861 ...