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Primary Sources Research Guide

This guide gives information about primary sources and how to locate them in the Library Catalog, our databases, and external sites.

Where to Locate Primary Sources - Political Science & Government

Where to find primary sources - Political Science & Government

Here is a list of the kinds of resources that are considered "primary" for this discipline:

Speeches

Diaries

Narratives

Government reports

Letters

Press releases

Official legislative records

Interviews

Election data

Public opinion polls and surveys

Treaties

Oral histories

Maps

Organizational records

 

Here are some databases that EFSC licenses, that may contain some of these primary sources:

Criminal Justice

Military & Government Collection

Military and Intelligence

 

Some websites do focus on these discipline-areas and may have primary sources within them:

National Security Archive (George Washington University)

Congress.gov

United Nations Treaty Collection

Congressional Research Service

Foreign Relations of the United States

National Archives: Executive Materials  and  National Archives: Presidential Libraries

USA Election Polls

The Living Room Candidate

Library of Congress Digital Collections on Government, Law & Politics

National Governor's Association