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Databases & Research Links

Primary Sources

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.

Most of the databases below will require you to limit your search to primary documents. Follow the directions after the link on how to do that.

Databases with Primary Sources

Google Primary Source Search

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

Primary Source Websites

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