All professional librarians at Herrick have duties as subject liaisons for one or more academic divisions and are responsible for building the collections in those areas. They work with faculty members to do this, and to promote use of the library and its resources. They are the actual documents or facsimiles of work written or created during the period you are studying. Examples would be Hogarth's engravings, the Declaration of Independence, and Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette.
Secondary sources seek to explain and analyze primary sources.
They offer the perspectives of one or more persons and they examine the context and the importance of events and sources. Some examples would be textbooks, journal articles, and commentaries. This is the name of Herrick Library's online catalog. You will need to use it to locate resources owned by Herrick. Selected Reference Books The Reference area contains many useful sources for early American history.