When you are researching history, you will make extensive use of primary sources. For those of you who are not familiar with the term, it refers to original material. In general it comprises those materials that provide first-hand accounts of the events, practices, or conditions you are researching. They have been created by witnesses to events as they occurred. They include items such as:
You will be using both primary and secondary sources in your research.
Secondary sources of information are derived from primary sources. They are written after the fact by a party who was not witness to the original event. A secondary source interprets and analyzes primary sources. These sources are one or more steps removed from the event. Secondary sources may contain pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources. They may include:
A collection of primary sources that traces the global history of women’s international agendas and their influence on the course of events and shifts in attitudes that have come to define modern life.
Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection includes 105 document projects and archives and more than 53,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written altogether by about 2,200 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
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