MHS Databases: Primary Sources

What Is a Primary Source?

Primary sources are immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it. Primary sources can include newspaper reports, by reporters who witnessed an event or who quote people who did, speeches, diaries, letters and interviews, original research, survey data, such as census or economic statistics, photographs, video, or audio that capture an event.

Databases with Primary Sources (Look to Limit your Search to Primary Documents)

Google Primary Search

A custom search in Google that searches for text and images across the primary source portals.

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