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Honors 212: Origins of the Modern World View

Digital Primary Source Collections

Newspapers & Magazines - Digital Collections

Newspaper and magazine articles can be especially rich primary source materials when you are researching the transmission of or popularization of an idea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Using Subject Headings in Primo to Find Primary Sources

When searching Primo, you can use specific Library of Congress subheadings to identify potential primary source materials:

[subject] -- Early works to 1800

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800

[subject] -- Popular works

Quantum theory -- Popular works

[subject] -- in [different domain]

Physics in literature

Astronomy in literature

[subject] and [subject]

Literature and science