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Colonial North Carolina. Where do you get information?. Two Types of Sources. Primary Sources. Secondary Sources. Items created after something happened Talk about someone else’s experiences Examples: textbooks, newspapers, encyclopedia.
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Two Types of Sources Primary Sources Secondary Sources Items created after something happened Talk about someone else’s experiences Examples: textbooks, newspapers, encyclopedia • Items created used by people that leave clues about their lives • Examples: letters, diaries, journals, maps, recipes, pictures, artifacts, documents, cartoons etc.. • Historical Record • Evidence about the past
Examples of primary sources… Artifacts Documents
More primary sources Oral Histories / Interviews Photographs / Paintings / Prints http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/playback.html?base_file=B-0012&duration=02:44:21
More primary sources… Maps Cartoons
When were the Colonial times • This timeline will help you understand where in history the Colonial times were
What is a colony? • A colony is a settlement separated from, but under the control of, a home country
North Carolina Colonial Records • For this unit we are going to be examining many different primary source documents. • We will be using a special collection found at a website called Documenting the American South. • This website has many different collections and is supported by the library at UNC. • We are going to be using the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina • http://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/