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HISTORY 315H: Nation-Building in Latin America: Primary Sources

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.

 

Useful Primary Source Databases

Selected Latin American and Caribbean Primary Source Databases

Primary Sources Research Guide

You may find this library research guide useful:

Finding Primary Source Materials