Primary & Secondary Sources

A play showing how Ben Franklin flew a kite in a lightning storm

• primary source

• secondary source

a short story describing Thomas Edison & Nikola Tesla's 'electrical" battle

• primary source

• secondary source

Anne Frank's diary describing her life during World War II

• primary source

• secondary source

a cartoon showing how Pocahontas met John Smith

• primary source

• secondary source

a textbook describing the civil rights movement

• primary source

• secondary source

an interview with Alexander Graham about how he invented the telephone

• primary source

• secondary source

a YouTube video describing how the pyramids were built

• primary source

• secondary source

a news report interviewing a worker at a recently opened power plant

• primary

• secondary

the US Constitution

• primary source

• secondary source

a famous artist's painting of what cowboy life was probably like

• primary source

• secondary source