Sources of Information

original materials that were created during the time being studied or by someone with first hand knowledge of the event

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Anything that was not written or created at the time being studied or that was not written by someone with first hand knowledge of the event

• Primary source

• Secondary Source

Personal opinions, feelings, or prejudices that influence the judgement of all people

• Education

• Thoughts

• Bias

Which of these is NOT a primary source?

• Artifacts found by an archaeologist

• Photographs of the Dust Bowl

• Textbook chapter about the Civil War

Which one of these is a primary source?

• Diary entry

• Painting of Martin Luther King Jr. painted this year

• Research project about Ronald Reagan

Autobiography

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

The Constitution

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Timeline

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Photographs of you at a birthday party

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Newspaper article about September 11, 2001 written in 2018

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source