Primary and Secondary Sources

A play showing how Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a storm

• Primary

• Secondary

A short story describing Edison and Tesla's battle over electricity

• Primary

• Secondary

Anne Frank's diary describing her life during World War 2

• Primary

• Secondary

A cartoon showing how Pocahontas met John Smith

• Primary

• Secondary

A text book describing the Civil Rights Movement

• Primary

• Secondary

A news report about the opening of a power plant

• Primary

• Secondary

A scientist explaining what it was like for Buzz Aldrin to walk the moon

• Primary

• Secondary

A biography about Franklin Roosevelt

• Primary

• Secondary

An interview with Alexander Graham Bell about how he invented the telephone

• Primary

• Secondary

A radio broadcast from the day the Soviet Union launched the satellite, Sputnik

• Primary

• Secondary