Primary Sources
What are primary sources?
Primary sources are original records created at the time historical events occurred or well after events in the form of memoirs and oral histories. Primary sources may include: letters, manuscripts, diaries, journals, newspapers, speeches, interviews, memoirs, documents produced by government agencies such as Congress or the Office of the President, photographs, audio recordings, moving pictures or video recordings, research data, and objects or artifacts such as works of art or ancient roads, buildings, tools, and weapons (American Library Association).
Where can I find Primary Sources:
Audio |
American Rhetoric & Speech Bank National Jukebox - Library of Congress The Studs Terkel Radio Archive
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Books and Monographs |
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Government Documents |
Avalon Project - Major Documents Collection Foreign Relations of the United States Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
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Images
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New York Public Library Public Domain Collections
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Newspapers and Magazines |
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Personal Accounts |
Civil Rights Documentation Project
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Mixed Collections |
Digital Vaults – National Archive Documenting the American South National Archives Online exhibits |