Oxford First Source

Welcome to the home of Oxford First Source, a primary source database.

This unique collection of primary source documents represents a broad cross-section of voices from across the globe and across time. Covering a wide variety of political, economic, social, and cultural topics, each document includes an introduction contextualizing the source. Review questions highlighting key themes additionally supplement select documents.

Oxford First Source is included with semester-long digital access to the following titles:

• McGerr et al., Of the People, 5th and 6th edition
• Smith, et al., World in the Making, 2nd edition
• Backman, Cultures of the West, 4th edition
• Schaller, et al., American Horizons, 5th edition
• Carter/Warren, Forging the Modern World, 3rd edition
• Gordon, Seven Themes in World History
• Berenson, Europe in the Modern World, 2nd edition
• Horn, A People's History of the World
• Hahn, Forging America
• Gorn et al., Constructing the American Past, 9th edition