Special Collections & Archives in the ZSR Library has created subject-specific guides to streamline research in certain areas. These subject guides provide links to finding aids and digital collections from our University Archives, Personal Collections & Manuscripts, and North Carolina Baptist Historical Collections as well as our Rare Books Collection. These subject guides and selected bibliographies have been prepared by Special Collections librarians to suggest primary sources in the Wake Forest University Library which are available to support a variety of research topics.

• African American and Black Resources
• Child Care Initiative at WFU
• Civil War Resource Guide
• Collections Documenting Eugenics
• Congressional Collections
• Dolmen Collection, Printing Blocks Series
• Dr. Edwin G. Wilson, “Mr. Wake Forest”
• Early History of Wake Forest College, 1830-1899
• Earth Day and Sustainability
• Education in 18th Century British Literature
• Euzelian and Philomathesian Literary Societies
• Explorers, Travelers, Tourists: Europeans Abroad in the Age of Empire
• Genealogy Resources
• Historical Research on Infectious Diseases
• Histories of Wake Forest Resources Relating to Human Civil Rights
• History of Britain to 1750
• Insensitive and Discriminatory Content in Wake Forest’s Howler Yearbooks and Other Records
• Isadora Duncan and Related Materials
• LGBTQ at Wake Forest
• Military Collections
• Narratives by Enslaved People
• Primary Sources for Women
• Primary Sources on Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
• Renaissance Books
• Resources for Dr. Maya Angelou
• Shakespeare’s Sources
• Southern Baptists and the Enslaved
• Student Life at Wake Forest
• Studying Winston-Salem
• Tobacco Resources
• Wake Forest Athletics
• Wake Forest Move to Winston-Salem
• Wake Forest Traditions
• WFU History
• WFU Presidents’ Papers
• WFU Publications
• WFU Student Activism
• Women Authors of the Long 18th Century
• Women’s Suffrage Primary Sources
• WWII and Wake Forest