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You may ask yourself... What IS a primary source document???

You will need to find a variety of resource to use for research, and primary source documents allow you to use information that is about a person, by a person!

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Using Primary Resources: Teaching Guides from the Tennessee State Library and Archives

Primary Sources are first-hand accounts of an event, a life, a moment in time. They are in their original form (diaries, letters, photos, etc.) usually without explanation or interpretation. Secondary sources are often written some time after an event happened by people who were not present when the event occurred. Secondary sources are based on a variety of other sources and can include books, journal articles, textbooks, and reference sources. Historian Mary Lynn Rampolla defines [primary sources] as “materials produced by people or groups directly involved in the event or topic under consideration.”. . . Primary sources can include not just written documents like letters or diaries but also the material remains (e.g., tools, furniture, art, architecture, music) of a specific time and place. Primary sources are the essential building blocks for the historian's reconstruction of a moment in time.

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