Primary Sources - History 110 - History of Science and Medicine - Research Guides at University of Nebraska Kearney (UNK)

Notes

This page focuses on Primary Sources that have both Medicine and Science content. For more specific sources, please see the Medicine Primary Sources and Science Primary Sources pages.

What is a Primary Source?

Websites & Texts

Library of Congress Science Reference Service
Consider browsing the Bibliographies and Research Guides or the Tracer Bullets sections for topic ideas.
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
Lets you search a number of 19th-century general-interest publications.

Library Resources

Government Documents @ Calvin T Ryan Library: there are AMAZING resources hidden here. More recent content is searchable in the library catalog, but older documents require browsing the Government Documents area in the library. The FDLP explains how the materials are organized.

Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900 This link opens in a new window
This collection showcases the development of 'popular' medicine in America during the nineteenth century, through an extensive range of material that was aimed at the general public rather than medical professionals.
Explore an array of printed sources, including rare books, pamphlets, trade cards, and visually-rich advertising ephemera." - description from resource home page
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 This link opens in a new window
Perspectives on life in North, Central, and South America and the West Indies, from the late fifteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century.
British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Forty-eight newspapers from 19th-century Britain. Try searching for notable names like Charles Darwin or scientific theories.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Includes 32 million pages from books, pamphlets, and essays. Try playing with search terms and using the advanced search to select the "Science, Technology, and Medicine" collections.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages from the 19th century.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Cover-to-cover access to hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.

Nebraska Isolation and Quarantine Manual by Theodore J. Cieslak (Editor); Mark G. Kortepeter (Editor); Christopher J. Kratochvil (Editor); James V. Lawler (Editor)
ISBN: 9780989353748
Publication Date: 2020-03-16

General Primary Sources

Internet History of Science Sourcebook
A variety of sources from the ancient world to the late 1900s, organized by culture and topic.