A primary source is a document or piece of evidence written or created during the time of study; primary sources offer an eyewitness account of a particular event.
Some examples of primary sources include:
- Newspapers
- Speeches
- Government documents
- Images
- Works of art
- Personal papers: letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, oral histories, autobiographies.
Image source: Wikimedia Commons. Runaway Slave Advertisement. Public Domain.