Primary Sources in GVRL

The Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) includes guides to and collections of primary source material related to a number of social issues, among them:

• Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources
• Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources
• Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources
• Gender Issues and Sexuality: Essential Primary Sources
• Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources
• Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources
• Immigration and Multicultural Issues: Essential Primary Sources
• Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources
• Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources

These can be found in the Social Science section of GVRL which can be searched as a group--useful if you want to find a wide amount of material on a topic. You can also click on an individual title in the group to search a single work.

Primary sources record firsthand observations of events by the people who were there--diaries, letters, newspaper reports, interviews, memoirs, photographs, policies and more.