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HIS 220: Colonial America

Professor Bentz, Fall 2015.

What are Primary Sources?

Primary sources offer an eyewitness view of a particular event.  Primary sources may be created at the time of the particular event, or afterwards, as an eyewitness account of what occurred. 

 

Primary sources include:

accounts OR autobiographies OR charters OR chronicles OR correspondence OR diaries OR documents OR journals OR letters OR manuscripts OR memoirs OR minutes OR narratives OR papers OR records OR sources OR speeches OR writings

Sources listed above are OR'd so that you can copy this list and paste it into your search box.

Image source: An extraordinary map, this is Covens and Mortier’s 1708 reissue of De L’Isle’s landmark 1700 mapping of North America. Public domain.  Wikimedia Commons.