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HST 239 : Oral History Project, Spring 2024: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary

The Distance between the Source and the Event it Describes.

 

 

Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources

Tertiary sources can be used to identify/verify facts, dates, names, locations, and other appropriate terminology.

Re-use the terminology/vocabulary from reference sources to search the article databases, to find scholarly, peer reviewed, articles (secondary sources).

Knowledge of dates is often necessary when searching for contemporaneous newspaper articles.