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Primary sources are contemporary, first-hand, (un)published accounts of an event. Published = printed, filmed, uploaded, or digitized (non-archival) materials.
Archival Collections
Newspapers
Primary Source Publications
Publications of original documents, often with retrospective scholarly analysis and bibliographies.
Audiovisual Materials
Numerical & Geospatial Data
Primary Source Databases
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Secondary sources are retrospective analyses based on the author’s own reading of existing primary sources. Scholarly work uses recent, peer-reviewed academic sources, such as journal (not magazine) articles, books, and book chapters.
Books
Articles
Dissertations & theses
Book Reviews