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The Study of History: Primary and Secondary Sources
Use your notes to determine if the following is a Primary Source or a Secondary Source. Use
PS for Primary Source and SS for Secondary Source.
_____ 1. Diary kept by John Smith, a soldier in the Confederate Army, published in a collection of papers.
_____ 2. Photograph of George Washington Carver taken in 1898.
_____ 3. Biography of George Washington.
_____ 4. Newspaper article about the assassination of President Kennedy written by a reporter along the motorcade route on November
23, 1963.
_____ 5. Television documentary series on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great Depression.
_____ 6. Scrapbook kept by Mrs. Mary Williams in 1883 with copies of recipes and notes on household items.
_____ 7. Photograph album containing pictures of classmates at Harvard University in 1923.
_____ 8. Letter written by Emily Smith to her friend Paula Jones in May 1826 describing her trip by wagon from North Carolina to
Alabama.
_____ 9. Article about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in People Magazine published in 1988 on the 20th Anniversary of his assassination.
_____ 10. Information about the Creek Indians from the Britannica Encyclopedia at www.britannica.com.
_____ 11. Audio recording of an interview with Dr. James Lee describing his life as a doctor in Montgomery County in the 1920s.
_____ 12. The Story of Alabama, a textbook by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
_____ 13. Matthew Mason’s last will and testimony from 1896
_____ 14. Map of Kentucky drawn in 1796
_____ 15. Minutes from the 1898 women’s organization of Dexter Avenue United Methodist Church re-published in 1990
Name
Date
Block
The Study of History: Primary and Secondary Sources
Use your notes to determine if the following is a Primary Source or a Secondary Source. Use
PS for Primary Source and SS for Secondary Source.
_____ 1. Diary kept by John Smith, a soldier in the Confederate Army, published in a collection of papers.
_____ 2. Photograph of George Washington Carver taken in 1898.
_____ 3. Biography of George Washington.
_____ 4. Newspaper article about the assassination of President Kennedy written by a reporter along the motorcade route on November
23, 1963.
_____ 5. Television documentary series on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great Depression.
_____ 6. Scrapbook kept by Mrs. Mary Williams in 1883 with copies of recipes and notes on household items.
_____ 7. Photograph album containing pictures of classmates at Harvard University in 1923.
_____ 8. Letter written by Emily Smith to her friend Paula Jones in May 1826 describing her trip by wagon from North Carolina to
Alabama.
_____ 9. Article about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in People Magazine published in 1988 on the 20th Anniversary of his assassination.
_____ 10. Information about the Creek Indians from the Britannica Encyclopedia at www.britannica.com.
_____ 11. Audio recording of an interview with Dr. James Lee describing his life as a doctor in Montgomery County in the 1920s.
_____ 12. The Story of Alabama, a textbook by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
_____ 13. Matthew Mason’s last will and testimony from 1896
_____ 14. Map of Kentucky drawn in 1796
_____ 15. Minutes from the 1898 women’s organization of Dexter Avenue United Methodist Church re-published in 1990