Park Library is part of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media. You may find assistance with your news searches.
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.
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:
Latin American and English-language Retrospective Newspapers