Newsbank

Day 4: Let's start looking for PRIMARY sources. In order to create your historical character, you will have to get a sense of the time period from images and documents FROM the time period. You may want to look at:

Letters/"correspondence"

Newspaper articles/editorials

Photographs 

Laws/Legislation/Government Documents/Court Cases

Addresses or Speeches

Announcements/Statements/Positions

Poems/Songs

Narratives

Directions:

1. Select the era you are writing about

2. Explore the three columns for that time period:

   1. Government, Military & Political Events 

   2. Social & Cultural Issues 

   3. Discoveries, Inventions & Firsts 

3. Click on one of the sub-topics

4. Check out the overview of the topic and if it is useful, click on the blue "read more" button ~This is SECONDARY source content - written by a modern historian to help you understand the topic

5. After scrolling past the overview, it will say "News Articles on this Topic"

6. Browse the topics as well as the titles/ summaries of the articles (in blue) related to that topic ~These are primary sources from the time period

7. After clicking on an article, you can:

   2. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Get the citation! 

                        2. Zoom in/ out

                        3. Download