French & Francophone Studies Resources 

A primary source is a first-hand account of an event.

To Search the online catalog for primary sources, use Subject Headings for your topic and add words like

• diaries, letters, interviews
• oral histories
• personal narratives, personal memoir
  
• sources, law, report, government commission

For example:

Germany -History- WWII -1939-1945--Personal narratives)

• Talk with Special Collections Library staff
  
• Browse Primary Sources Research Databases