What are primary sources?
Primary sources are first-hand accounts of an event, topic, or historical time period and are original documents created or experienced contemporaneously with the event being researched.
Examples:
- Newspaper accounts
- Letters, diaries, journals
- Personal accounts, autobiographies, memoirs
- Interviews
- Speeches
- Creative works
- Data
- Government documents
NOTE: Many of these types of primary sources can be found in books and other print resources.