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HIST 248: Guerrillas and Counterinsurgencies in Latin America: Primary Sources

Park Library

Park Library is part of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media. You may find assistance with your news searches. 

Current Newspaper Databases

What are primary sources?

Primary sources are materials directly related to a topic by time or participation. These materials include letters, speeches, diaries, newspaper articles from the time, oral history interviews, documents, photographs, artifacts, or anything else that provides firsthand accounts about a person or event.

 

Search the UNC Catalog for Primary Sources

When you search the library catalog, begin with a simple keyword search to identify one or more relevant resources. Keyword terms used to find primary sources can include:

- Personal narratives - Diaries
- Correspondence         - Letters
- Interviews                            - Autobiography
- Memoirs - Maps
- Pamphlets - Speeches
- Sources - Archives
- Archival Resources  

 

Examples of keyword searches might look like:

Primary Sources Databases

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Retrospective Newpaper Collections

Latin American and English-language Retrospective Newspapers