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Welcome to the History Resource Page: 

WHY USE PRIMARY SOURCES?

Primary Sources give the most accurate account of History.  All documents have some bias.  Whether it is the point of view of a person witnessing the event, or the point an author wants to make in a text book.  The further the information gets from the person who experienced the event, the less accurate the actual history.

By looking at Primary documents you are able to get a clearer view of the actual events and understand better the reasoning of the people of the time.  For example: People in the South during the Civil War did not consider themselves racist.  Truth be known they probably considered the fact that the workers on their farm were black far LESS than they were concerned about how they were going to get the crop in if all of their workers walked away from the Plantation.  

THIS SITE ALSO CONTAINS MAJOR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS: 

Here is a list of the 100 most influential documents in US History as chosen by the US National Archives.  It's a good place to start if you don't know where to go.  There are thousands more on this site.  Have fun exploring!