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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. Book Structures
  13. Bookplates
  14. British Renaissance
  15. Commonplace Books
  16. Etiquette
  17. Historic Cooking Resources
  18. History Post-1880
  19. History 411: Do-It-Yourself America
  20. History 411/611: Writing History through Material Culture
  21. Interior design, 1850-1900
  22. Irish Literature
  23. Irish Literature: Twentieth-century Drama
  24. Jefferson letter discovered in Rockwood Archives
  25. Letterpress and Bookbinding
  26. Literary Manuscripts [Secondary Readings]
  27. Literary Research Methods 2006
  28. Literature and Letters: Public and Private Productions
  29. Maps
  30. Maritime Journals and Ships' Logs
  31. Medieval Literature and Its Influences
  32. Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium: Early Modern Movement and Motion
  33. Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium: Economies
  34. Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium: Space
  35. New Castle County, Delaware
  36. Newark, Delaware
  37. Oral Histories
  38. Performing Arts
  39. Politics and Government, Domestic and Foreign
  40. Postcards
  41. Printing and the Bookarts
  42. Reading in America, 1800-2000
  43. Science Fiction
  44. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mysteries, and Pulp Fiction
  45. Shakespeare Through the Ages
  46. Southern Literature
  47. University of Delaware
  48. Visual Communications Process II
  49. Women's Literary Papers and Manuscripts

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