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What are primary sources and how can I find them?

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Primary sources are immediate documentation or first-hand accounts of an event or topic. Examples can include legal documentation, journal or diary entries, audio or video recordings, news stories where a journalist directly witnessed an event, statistical data, or results of an experiment.

We have an awesome primary source libguide on the library's website, it's a great place to start a primary source search:
https://guides.lib.utc.edu/primary-sources