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Subject Guides & Selected Bibliographies

These subject guides and selected bibliographies have been prepared by Special Collections librarians to suggest primary sources in the University of Delaware Library which are available to support a variety of research topics. A number of these selective bibliographies were prepared at the request of faculty for specifically focused classes.

In addition to the guides listed below, researchers may want to consider the variety of subjects presented in the Library's online exhibitions. Many of the detailed finding aids to manuscripts, visual materials, and other collections are available on this Website, and access to bibliographic descriptions of printed collections is available through the Library's online catalog, DELCAT.

Subject list


  1. African American Sources
  2. America to 1860
  3. American History
  4. American Literature: Selections for ENGL 267-014
  5. American Literature to 1865
  6. American Literature: 1861 - 1945
  7. American Literature: 1861 - 1945 [Introducing Primary Sources]
  8. Architecture
  9. Art History
  10. Artists Books
  11. Biology 467: Epidemics and Plagues
  12. Bookplates
  13. British Renaissance
  14. Commonplace Books
  15. Etiquette
  16. Historic Cooking Resources
  17. History Post-1880
  18. History 411: Do-It-Yourself America
  19. History 411/611: Writing History through Material Culture
  20. Interior design, 1850-1900
  21. Irish Literature
  22. Irish Literature: Twentieth-century Drama
  23. Letterpress and Bookbinding
  24. Literary Manuscripts [Secondary Readings]
  25. Literary Research Methods 2006
  26. Literature and Letters: Public and Private Productions
  27. Maps
  28. Maritime Journals and Ships' Logs
  29. Medieval Literature and Its Influences
  30. Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium: Early Modern Movement and Motion
  31. Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium: Economies
  32. Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium: Space
  33. New Castle County, Delaware
  34. Newark, Delaware
  35. Oral Histories
  36. Politics and Government, Domestic and Foreign
  37. Postcards
  38. Printing and the Bookarts
  39. Reading in America, 1800-2000
  40. Science Fiction
  41. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mysteries, and Pulp Fiction
  42. Shakespeare Through the Ages
  43. Southern Literature
  44. Visual Communications Process II
  45. Women's Literary Papers and Manuscripts

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Last modified: 05/26/09

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