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HIS300 American Beginnings Research Guide

Guide to finding contextual information and primary sources for the period up to 1790

Primary Sources

Primary Sources

Primary Sources are first-hand accounts of events, such as letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper articles, photos, film footage, speeches, interviews, original research, government documents, postcards, leaflets, and artifacts. 

Primary sources are vital to understanding historical perspectives.

Many documents are available online, but many more have yet to be digitized and are available in their original physical form in archives around the world.

This guide will help you to find primary sources that are easily accessible to the Bethel University community.

 

Primary Source Poster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Image from University of Minnesota Libraries: http://digital.lib.umn.edu/warposters/)

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