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HIST 100: Children’s History and the History of Children (Fall 2024)

What are Primary & Secondary Sources?

A Primary Source are first hand accounts & materials from the period under examination. These may include:

  • diaries
  • journals
  • newspapers
  • contemporary publications
  • autobiographies
  • music/songs
  • recordings or images
  • play bills
  • performance Reviews
  • interviews
  • recordings
  • diaries
  • journals
  • newspapers
  • contemporary publications
  • autobiographies
  • music/songs
  • images
  • Broadsides / Posters
  • Legal documents
  • Films

For this class, it will also include novels, literature, images.

A Secondary Source is produces after the fact and is not produced during the time under examination. Some of this contact may be popular culture artifacts, such as:

  • Academic articles
  • Books
  • Biographies
  • Magazine articles
  • Interviews years later
  • films
  • biographies
  • art
  • film & television
  • Websites

Some of these secondary sources will also be academic or peer reviewed content namely books and articles.