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DEFINITIONS:
PRIMARY SOURCE: A primary source is a document or physical object
which was written or created during the time under study. These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event. Some types of primary sources include:
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS (excerpts or translations acceptable): Diaries, speeches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, news film footage, autobiographies, official records
CREATIVE WORKS: Poetry, drama, novels, music, art
RELICS OR ARTIFACTS: Pottery, furniture, clothing, buildings
SECONDARY SOURCE: A secondary source interprets and analyzes primary sources. These sources are one or more steps removed from the event. Secondary sources may have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them. Some types of seconday sources include:
PUBLICATIONS: Textbooks, magazine articles, histories, criticisms, commentaries, encyclopedias
LINKS to PRIMARY SOURCES:
National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/index.html
Yale's Avalon Project: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/
Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/
Primary Sources at Yale: http://www.yale.edu/collections_collaborative/primarysources/
RESEARCH TOOLS, RESOURCES, SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTES:
Sue Pojer: Go here and scroll down and look to the right for other websites: http://www.historyteacher.net/
CANTON'S LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER: http://www.cantonschools.org/~jeickenhorst/
CHICAGO STYLE - HOW to...to go Purdue!! --> https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/
Also...http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Sample of a paper Chicago Style on Fort Pillow (with endnotes...Caution: the paper for this course must have FOOTNOTES): http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/pdf/Hacker-Bish-CMS.pdf
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