PAID 112 Section 23: Streese (Spring 2025)

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:

• Personal journals and autobiographies
• Interviews
• Speeches
• Laws and statutes
• Photographs
• Novels
• Music 
• Films and documentaries
• Newspaper articles

Click on the link to see the availability of the titles which are on reserve. These represent just a selection of primary sources! Remember that you can check them out for two hours only!