{"id":2276,"date":"2017-11-13T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/index.php\/2017\/11\/13\/primary-source-a-definition\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T21:16:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T21:16:20","slug":"primary-source-a-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/2017\/11\/13\/primary-source-a-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;primary source&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere in elementary school, we begin to introduce the concept of &#8220;primary source&#8221; to the children and then work heavily with it during the upper grades into high school.<\/p>\n<p>A primary source is a document, photo, letter, writing, or recording from a person who was a primary &#8220;witness&#8221; to an event or era.<\/p>\n<p>Primary sources give us a personal understanding of a time or place. Coupled with other primary sources, we can make accurate statements about a particular event or era. Each person has a bias that they may display in any given recording of history. Hopefully, when there are many voices we have a clear picture.<\/p>\n<p>The library of the University of California at Irvine has a webpage dedicated to primary sources. Here&#8217;s a list of possible formats:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"_yXc\">\n<ul class=\"_kYe\">\n<li class=\"_AXc\">archives and manuscript material.<\/li>\n<li class=\"_AXc\">photographs, audio recordings, video recordings, films.<\/li>\n<li class=\"_AXc\">journals, letters and diaries.<\/li>\n<li class=\"_AXc\">speeches.<\/li>\n<li class=\"_AXc\">scrapbooks.<\/li>\n<li class=\"_AXc\">published books, newspapers and magazine clippings published at the time.<\/li>\n<li class=\"_AXc\">government publications.<\/li>\n<li class=\"_AXc\">oral histories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This website also includes some details on the characteristics of a primary source that I find enlightening.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/writing-tips\/\">Writing Tips<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go on to Module 3, Choices for Point of View and Verb Tense<a href=\"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/2016\/09\/24\/first-person-point-of-view-pov\/\">: first person point-of-view<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere in elementary school, we begin to introduce the concept of &#8220;primary source&#8221; to the children and then work heavily with it during the upper grades into high school. A primary source is a document, photo, letter, writing, or recording from a person who was a primary &#8220;witness&#8221; to an event or era. Primary sources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}