Primary sources are records contemporary to a time or event. They may be written, spoken, visual, or physical and may have been created intentionally (government documents, records, oral histories, etc.) or unintentionally (letters, diaries, clothing, tools, buildings, etc.) and published or unpublished. Primary sources come in many forms, including:
Collection of primary source documents drawn from letters, diaries, and oral histories. This database pulls together content from: North American Women's Letters and Diaries, British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories, The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries, and Black Thought and Culture.
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