Research Guides: Primary Sources Research Guide: Find sources by time period

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When you search the web or library catalog, try different names for your time period.
- e.g., "Qing dynasty" or "eighteenth century"
- e.g., Renaissance or "early modern" (these terms have different political and scholarly stakes, but you could try both)

Making of the Modern World (1450-1914) This link opens in a new window
Primary source materials (including broadsides and pamphlets, serials, and monographs) tracing British and US economic history from 1450-1914.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (1701-1800) This link opens in a new window
Page images and full-text searching for more than 136,000 key English- and foreign-language titles printed in Great Britain during the 18th century, based on the English Short Title Catalogue.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) (1780-1925) This link opens in a new window
Full-text, searchable content from a broad range of 19th-century sources in literature, politics, theater, music, religion, maps, science, and childhood