Primary sources are materials created at the time of the topic you are researching, or by an eyewitness to the topic/event. Primary sources enable historians to get as close as possible to documentation of what likely actually happened during a historical period or event. For the purposes of History 630, you are working to identify chronicles or annals, that document what an eyewitness experienced during your topic focus.
Primary sources are first-hand accounts of an event or time in history that has yet to be interpreted by another person.
Examples of primary sources include:
Southwest Sentinel -The Southwest Sentinel was published between March 10, 1883, and May 1896, in Silver City, New Mexico. It usually appeared weekly although it was published semiweekly between March 10, 1883, and December 29, 1885, and daily between September 1887 and June 1888. For the first eleven issues, the paper was called the South-west Sentinel
Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press
The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.
US Diplomatic Documents and other Government Documents
Browse through Haithi Trust Records and the Making of America Project at Cornell University