HIST330430_Spring_2020: Primary Sources

These databases are provided by SU Libraries. They can be used for most of your topics, including the Yellow Fever examples below. 

Early American Imprints

• Search for yellow fever
• Within that search, search 1793 and use the drop down to choose IN DATE

Early American Newspapers

• Search for yellow fever
• Use the Custom Date Range widget on the left to search from 1793 to 1793
   

[E-BOOK] A narrative of the proceedings of the black people during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia in the year 1793 : and a refutation of some censures thrown upon them in some late publications by Absalom Jones, Richard Allen
 

[E-BOOK] Letters of Benjamin Rush/ Volume 2 by L H Butterfield
 

[NEWSPAPER] Maryland Gazette, September 1793 (see pages 10 and 13)
 

[MANUSCRIPT] Minutes of the Committee to Attend to the Malignant Fever, 1793-1794 (from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania)