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=Primary Sources=

What is a Primary Sources?
Library of Congress Lesson Plan for Teachers on What are Primary Sources?

"Primary sources are actual records that have survived from the past, such as letters, photographs, articles of clothing. Secondary sources are accounts of the past created by people writing about events sometime after they happened. " Library of Congress Website (source)

See American Library Association's Information See Wikipedia's Information See Yale's Information

The Library of Congress has a wealth of primary source documents
 * American Memory from the Library of Congress
 * World Digital Library from the Library of Congress
 * Thomas from the Library of Congress (A collection of information both current and historical about our American Government)

Repositories of Primary Source Documents Index Primary Sources available on the Web

Many Universities have collections of Primary Source Documents. Here are just two examples.


 * Yale's Digital Collection
 * University of California at Berkeley's Digital Collection
 * University of California at Berkeley's Primary Source Collection

Historical Societies and State Libraries are two more resources for primary source documents


 * Historical Society of Pennsylvania
 * State Library of Pennsylvania