The librarians have gone ahead and conducted a few searches in OneSearch that are dedicated to primary sources.
The librarians have gone ahead and conducted a few searches in our academic databases that are dedicated to primary sources.
A great source for your History studies, this database provides access to an extensive array of primary sources from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Primary sources include images of artifacts, letters, photographs, posters, oral histories, video clips, sheet music, and more. Search by keyword, browse the topics, or view the special exhibitions.
You can use this site not only to supplement research in your academic studies, but also to access classic and lesser known films in a variety of subgenres.
The librarians have gone ahead and conducted a few searches on the World Wide Web that are dedicated to primary sources.
Primary sources are most easily thought of as interview, diaries, or even interviews with individuals who were present during a historical event or experiment.
For example, witnesses of the Boston Bombing, for example, could take a picture and tweet their experiences and this would be considered a primary source. But a retweet of that same tweet would not be considered primary, because the retweeter was not at the bombings. They are merely reporting on the primary source.
Primary Sources can be excerpts from emails and witness testimony that we see summarized in books, articles, and the evening news. Primary sources can be found in academic databases as well, like biographical and historical databases.
Primary sources may not be the objective truth. As humans, we encode our own perspectives and biases into our work. So, it is possible to have multiple primary sources perceive and report on an event in different, even conflicting ways.
