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Primary vs. Secondary Sources What is a Primary Source? Document or physical object Written or created during the time of the event Sources present during an experience or time period Offer an inside view of a particular event Original Documents Excerpts or translations Diaries Speeches Manuscripts Letters Interviews New film footage Autobiographies Official records Creative Works Poetry Drama Novels Music Art Photographs Relics or Artifacts Pottery Furniture Clothing Buildings Journals of Lewis and Clark What is a Secondary Source? Interprets and analyzes primary sources One or more steps removed from the event May have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them Publications Textbooks Magazine articles Histories Criticisms Biographies Commentaries encyclopedias Examples Journal/Magazine article which interprets or reviews previous findings A history textbook A book about the effects of WWI If I tell you something, I am the primary source. If you tell someone else what I told you, you are the secondary source. Internet Not always about the format Who wrote it and when it was written Location of source does not always define its classification President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address A 2004 editorial in The New York Times entitled “Everybody Loves Obama” Book written about diaries kept during the Holocaust U.S. Census Statistics Biography of King Henry VIII Autobiography of Winston Churchill http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpa ges/TTravis/social_studies_class.cfm?subpag e=788062 http://www.quia.com/cm/62038.html http://www.historyonthenet.com/Lessons/so urces/primarysecondary.htm
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