Primary and Secondary Sources

A diary titled “Life in the Mines” from a miner named Lucky Noah who lived in Idaho in the 1870’s

• Primary Sources

• Secondary Sources

A magazine article from 2011 titled “Mining in the Old West in the 1860’s-1890’s”

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

A Primary Source is anything that was written, used, or owned by the people who actually lived during a specific time period and actually made history.

An original photograph from the 1941 attack at Pearl Harbor that you found in your grandparent's photo album

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

What is secondary source?

A biography about Abraham Lincoln

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Which of these is a Secondary Source?

• Textbook

• WWI Uniform

• Journal by a woman in the 1800

• A letter written about the California gold rush by a Miner

Secondary sources are materials that were created _____ the event

What is NOT an original document?

• Diaries

• manuscripts

• Encyclopedia

• news film footage

Draw an example of a secondary source.