Biography primary and secondary sources definitions

  • Primary source definition and examples
  • What is a primary source in history
  • Primary and secondary sources examples

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    History

      Primary Sources

     Secondary Sources

    · autobiography

    ·biography

    · painting or object of art

    ·article reviewing or criticizing the art

    · personal diary or letter(s)

    ·book about the person or event

    · treaty (government document)

    ·essay interpreting the document

    · poem, novel, short story, etc.

    ·literary criticism of the work

    · firsthand observer accounts of event

    ·report on event years later

    · play, film, television show

    ·biography of writer

    · speech given by a person

    ·commentary on the speech

    · research reports by researchers

    ·interpretation of the research

    · photographs

    ·explanation of photographs

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    Primary and Secondary Sources in the Humanities and Social Sciences

    Primary sources are first hand sources; secondary sources are second-hand sources. For example, suppose there had been a car accident. The description of the accident which a witness gives to the police is a primary source because it comes from someone who was actually there at the time. The next day's newspaper story is a secondary source because the reporter who wrote the story did not actually witness the event.  The reporter is presenting a way of understanding the accident or an interpretation.

    *From North Park University, History Department

    However, the distinctions between primary and secondary sources can be ambiguous. It is important to remember that you cannot determine whether a source is primary or secondary solely based on the document type. An individual document may be a primary source in one context and a secondary source in another. For example, the movie Love, Marilyn is

  • biography primary and secondary sources definitions

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    Primary & Secondary Sources

    What Are Primary Sources?

    Primary sources are original materials used bygd historians to reconstruct a certain event in the past or moment in history.
    They are original documents, physical objects, relics, or artifacts created during the time under study by witnesses who lived through the event.  These sources were either produced at the time of the event, or (as in the case of memoirs and autobiographies) published at a later date.

    The following are only a few examples of primary sources and are bygd no means exhaustive:

    1. Original documents such as letters, diaries, manuscripts, tjänsteman documents, maps, pictures, and original rulle footage.  Examples:  the original Constitution of the United States, an original treaty between two states, diaries of travelers who document their journeys and experiences on the road, maps of cities or first-hand descriptions of battles.
    2. Relics and artifacts such as arrowheads, pottery shards, remains of buildings,