Primary Sources for American History  

From the Journals of Lewis and Clark

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PRIMARY SOURCES include works that are first-hand accounts by someone present at the time of or involved in an event.  These often are published in autobiographies, personal journals, diaries, and correspondence.  Primary sources also include the texts of original documents, photographs, films, and newspaper accounts of the event at the time it took place. 

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