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Primary and Secondary Sources 

Primary Sources

• a letter written to your parents

• your friend’s diary/journal

• the teacher’s data on grades

• an original map

• a photograph taken by a person

• the U.S. Constitution

• a book written at the time of the event

• an email sent to a relative

• an autobiography

• a witness of an accident

• a documentary film

• a sound recording

Secondary Sources

• a dictionary

• a biography about a person

• an encyclopedia

• a timeline created by a historian

• text in Studies Weekly

• an interpretation of something

• an essay about a topic

• a book about a topic from the past

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