Primary vs. Secondary Sources

A biography about Martin Luther King, Jr.

• PRIMARY

• SECONDARY

The Declaration of Independence.

• PRIMARY

• SECONDARY

A TV show explaining what happened in the Cold War.

• PRIMARY

• SECONDARY

A website describing what the first World's Fair was like.

• PRIMARY

• SECONDARY

A WW2 veteran talking about the war.

• PRIMARY

• SECONDARY

Mary Todd Lincoln's diary describing what she thought about the civil war.

• PRIMARY

• SECONDARY

A history book describing the Trail of Tears and America's Indian Removal Act.

• PRIMARY

• SECONDARY

A friend describing a wave she surfed.

• PRIMARY

• SECONDARY

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Michelle Obama's autobiography.

• PRIMARY

• SECONDARY

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A newspaper article from 1941 describing the attack on Pearl Harbor.

• PRIMARY

• SECONDARY