A Primary Source provides a FIRST HAND acount of an event. Primary sources are usually documents by eye-witnesses, diaries, letters, reports, photographs, newspaper articles.
A Secondary Source was created AFTER an event by someone who was NOT an eye-witness to it NOR participate in it. Secondary sources are usually scholarly books, textbooks, articles.
A Secondary Source was created AFTER an event by someone who was NOT an eye-witness to it NOR participate in it. Secondary sources are usually scholarly books, textbooks, articles.