Subject Guides
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
- Baptists and the Enslaved
- Civil War Resource Guide
- Collections Documenting Eugenics
- Congressional Collections
- Dolmen Collection, Printing Blocks Series
- Dr. Ed Wilson, “Mr. Wake Forest”
- Dr. Maya Angelou
- 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 in ZSR Special Collections
- LGBTQ at Wake Forest
- Military Collections
- Narratives by Enslaved People in ZSR Special Collections
- Primary Sources for Women
- Primary Sources on American Indians and Native Peoples
- Renaissance Books
- Shakespeare’s Sources
- Student Activism at Wake Forest University
- Student Life at Wake Forest
- Studying Winston-Salem
- Tobacco Resources in Special Collections & Archives
- Wake Forest Athletics Subject Guide
- 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
Other Resources
You can search each of these collections separately as well: Finding Aids, Library Catalog, and Digital Collections. If you would like to schedule an appointment to view these materials, please complete our request form.