Primary sources enable researchers to get as close as possible to what actually happened during a historical event or time period. Primary sources are documents, images or artifacts that provide firsthand testimony concerning a historical topic under research investigation. Primary sources are original documents created or experienced contemporaneously with the event being researched.
Examples of Primary Sources:
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New Iberian World: A Documentary History of the Discovery and Settlement of Latin America to the Early 17th Century
New American World
Mesoamerican Voices
1492: Discovery, Invasion, Encounter
Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History
Colonial Latin America
Latin America in Colonial Times