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TYPES OF HISTORICAL SOURCES

PRIMARY SOURCES

Primary sources are contemporaneous to the subject being studied. They could be
objects, letters, journal or newspapers. They must originate from the time being studied to be
accepted as a primary source, this can include copied images of an original document, or
reprinted editions of a book. If a historian was studying Abraham Lincoln, diaries and letters
written by Lincoln would be primary sources.

SECONDARY SOURCES

Secondary sources are nearly always textual: books or journals. A secondary


source would be an article written about a primary source. To continue the example
above, an essay or book written about Abraham Lincoln based on his diaries and
letters would be a secondary source.
TERTIARY SOURCES

Tertiary sources are sources that rely on secondary sources for their
information. This would include most school textbooks, essays written at school that
cite textbooks and secondary sources. Books and essays that are historiographical
in nature, so discuss the way in which history is presented, are tertiary sources.

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