Primary sources and special collections reading rooms can intimidate undergraduate and graduate students. Unlike secondary source research, where students can search online databases that often ...

What is a primary source? Primary sources are direct, first-hand accounts that describe a particular time period or event. Examples of primary sources include published materials (books, magazine and ...

We are at an inflection point in our collective understanding of the intersections of race, gender, class and colonialism, and how they have shaped our world today. Primary sources unlock access to ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are good ways to have students learn about—and use—primary sources? Part One featured suggestions from Donna L. Shrum, Kevin Thomas Smith, Sarah Cooper, and ...

On the other hand, secondary sources interpret and analyze primary sources. These sources are one or more steps removed from the event. Secondary sources may have pictures, quotes or graphics of ...

How to use lateral reading to verify information from a post or article. When to click through to a link or search result and when to move on to the next one. The difference between primary and ...