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AFS/HIST/WGS 222- African Women's History

This guide is designed to help the students in Dr. Candido's Fall 2025 Semester class with their research.

Finding Primary Sources in Library Search

Use Library Search to find published primary sources in Emory's libraries, including:

  •  Published books that contain primary source documents
  •  Manuscript and archival collections and rare books held by the Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library 
  •  U.S. government documents
  •  Primary source collections in microfilm or microfiche format
Look for works by individuals, associations, or other groups directly involved with the topic you are researching by searching for their names as AUTHORS. 

Try adding one or more of the following search terms to your search:

autobiographies

correspondence

diaries

description and travel

documents

facsimiles

history-sources

interviews

letters

manuscripts

notebooks

personal narratives

pamphlets

papers

pictorial works

portraits

posters

speeches