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History: Primary and Secondary Sources

Provides resources for, and examples of primary and secondary sources. Provides direction of searching for Primary and Secondary sources in library catalogs

Find Primary Sources in the EIU Library Catalog 


You can also look for primary sources in the library catalog by combining a type of primary source with a topic. 
Examples include:
 

Civil War AND diaries World War II AND memoirs
Lincoln AND speeches Vietnam War AND personal narratives
 
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