HMH: Family Histories: Primary and Secondary Sources

Choose ALL of the primary sources.

• stories from a person who was there

• objects from the actual time in the past

• a book written by someone recently about an event in the past

• documents from the actual time in the past

What is a secondary source?

• artifacts from the actual time in the past

• artifacts created later in time about something that happened in the past

Letters written by your great grandparents

• Primary source

• Secondary source

A statue made recently to honor people who fought in a war from the past.

• Primary source

• Secondary source

A book recently written about a person who lived long ago.

• Primary source

• Secondary source

Old clothes that a soldier wore in a battle.

• Primary source

• Secondary source