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Primary and Secondary Sources

Primary and Secondary Sources. By: J’aime Holderbaum. Diaries Letters Journals Speeches Interviews Photographs Audio and Video Recordings. Original literary or theatrical works Original advertisements

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Primary and Secondary Sources

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  1. Primary and Secondary Sources By: J’aime Holderbaum

  2. Diaries Letters Journals Speeches Interviews Photographs Audio and Video Recordings Original literary or theatrical works Original advertisements Magazine and Newspaper Articles (as long as they are written soon after the fact and not as historical accounts) What Are Primary Sources?The actual accounts of events or the original documents

  3. Examples of Primary Sources This is an original advertisement for Lux Soap.

  4. Examples of Primary Sources This is an original letter written by Thomas Jefferson to John Adams in 1788.

  5. Examples of Primary Sources Map of Michigan showing the Toledo, Ann Arbor, & North Michigan Railway and connecting lines.

  6. What Are Secondary Sources?They interpret the primary sources. • Text Books • Encyclopedias • Dictionaries • Books that interpret history • Articles that interpret history

  7. Examples of Secondary Sources A text book is a secondary source written about the primary sources.

  8. Examples of Secondary Sources World Book Encyclopedias are secondary sources of information.

  9. Think About It Why do you think historians use both primary and secondary sources? How do you think primary sources can be used?

  10. Resources Library of Congress American Memory Collection Lever Bros. Advertisement for Lux Laundry Flakes Digital ID ncdeaa L0009http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/ncdeaa.L0009 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?eaa:6:./temp/~ammem_7jOE:: Library of Congress American Memory Collection The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1. General Correspondence. 1651-1827Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, January 13, 1788, Included Copy of Thomas Jefferson Letter to Hogguer, Grand, & Company, same date Library of Congress American Memory Collection Map Collection DIGITAL ID: g4111p rr005830 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4111p.rr005830 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?gmd:1:./temp/~ammem_RS0I::@@@mdb=gmd,klpmap,ww2map History text Graphic http://www.amazon.com/History-Lessons-Textbooks-Around-Portray/dp/1595580824/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216832981&sr=1-5 World Book Graphic http://store.worldbook.com/wb/product.asp?sku=10029

  11. Social Studies Grade Level Content Expectation • 3-H3.02 Explain how historians use primary and secondary resources to answer questions about the past.

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