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Primary Sources: What Are They? - Teachinghistory.org

An annual program for elementary and secondary students designed to teach essential historical literacy that motivates students to secure the future of ...

Library Guides: Finding Historical Primary Sources: Getting Started

Online primary sources may be found via free web sites as well as via Library databases. Primary sources may be physically located in any of a number of UC ...

Primary Source

As the authors of Investigating History grades 5-7, Primary Source can provide professional learning that is nuanced, differentiated, and gives teachers the ...

Primary Sources for History & Literature Teachers - America in Class

Collections of primary resources — historical documents, literary texts, and works of art – thematically organized with notes and discussion questions.

Primary & Secondary Sources - Ithaca College Library

Primary sources include historical and legal documents, eyewitness accounts, results of experiments, statistical data, pieces of creative writing, audio and ...

Finding Primary Sources for Teachers and Students

Finding Primary Sources Primary Sources from DocsTeach Thousands of online primary source documents from the National Archives to bring the ...

What are primary and secondary sources? - Library Q+A

Secondary sources describe, discuss, interpret, comment on, analyze, evaluate, and summarize primary sources. They are created after an event ...

How to Read Primary Sources | Writing & Speaking Center

Primary sources are direct, first-hand accounts that describe a particular time period or event. Learn what to look for when reading a primary source to ...

What Are Primary Sources? - Research Guides - Emory University

A primary source could be defined as something that was created either during the time period being studied or afterward by individuals reflecting on their ...

Primary Sources - Research Guides at New York University

A primary source (also called original source) is a document, recording, artifact, or other source of information that was created at the time ...

What is a Primary Source? | Smithsonian Institution Archives

Primary sources include birth certificates, photographs, diaries, letters, embroidered samplers, clothing, household implements, and newspapers.

Electronic Resources: Primary Sources

This category provides access to "Primary Source" materials relevant to historical scholarship, including manuscripts, letters, diaries, newspapers, photographs ...

Primary & Secondary Sources - UCLA Department of History

They are original documents, physical objects, relics, or artifacts created during the time under study by witnesses who lived through the event. These sources ...

DocsTeach

Access thousands of primary sources — letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other document types — spanning the course of American history ...

Library Guides: Distinguish Between Primary and Secondary Sources

Primary sources These are contemporary accounts of an event, written by someone who experienced or witnessed the event in question.

What is a Primary Source - Research Guides - Wayne State University

Definition of Primary Sources: · Original Documents, including eyewitness accounts or the first record of events such as diaries, speeches, letters, manuscripts ...

Primary Sources come in all shapes and sizes.

Primary Sources come in all shapes and sizes. The illustrations below represent the major types of primary sources available at Yale.

Q. What are primary, secondary, and tertiary sources? - LibAnswers

Examples of secondary sources include many books, textbooks, and scholarly review articles. Tertiary sources compile and summarize mostly ...

SAA Dictionary: primary source - Society of American Archivists

n. material that contains firsthand accounts of events and that was created contemporaneous to those events or later recalled by an eyewitness (View Citations)

Primary Source Sets | DPLA

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the ...