Citizen
Historian
Sourcebook
The Citizen Historian Sourcebook is a platform for primary source documents and learning resources across a range of humanities fields and historical periods. The CHS enables researchers, teachers and students to deepen their understanding of historical topics.
British Empire for Children - A Virtual Exhibition
This virtual exhibition features ten historical sources published in The Children’s Encyclopaedia (or one of its other titles) between 1908 and 1913. The documents chosen focus on regions that were formal British crown colonies, spheres of influence, or other world regions often imagined through a colonialist lens in the decade before the First World War. Each document has been contextualized in an editorial note. The sources have been encoded using the TEI/XML standard to allow computational analysis.
Primary Source Documents
Federal Power Act
Environmental History
United States Congress, Washington D.C. (1920)
Diary of Samuel J. Gibson
Civil War
Samuel J. Gibson, Georgia (1864)
First Public Address
Civil Rights
Susan B. Anthony, Seneca Falls (1848)
The Discovery of Radium
History of Science
Marie Curie, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, New York) (1921)
Babe Ruth Transfer Agreement
Sports History
n.n., Boston and New York (1919)
Some Possible Bearings of Genetics on Pathology
History of Science
Thomas Hunt Morgan, Columbia University (1922)
The Ashes of Six Million Jews
Holocaust
Fred Blair, Berlin, Wisconsin (1946)
Some First-Priority Questions in Connection with the Situation in the Region of The Chernobyl AEhS
Environmental History
Andrei Serdyuk, Chernobyl, Ukrainian S.S.R. (1986)
NEJH Blog
The Puerto Ricans of Western Massachusetts: An Interview with Joseph Carvalho III
R.A. Lawson
What is Your Digital History Top Ten?
David Brandon Dennis
Using Digital History at Boston College High School to Map the 'New Bostonians'
David Brandon Dennis
Reflections on Teaching African History in America: An Interview with Linda Morse
David Brandon Dennis
