Sample Primary Sources:
Autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, personal letters, speeches, oral histories (interviews of first-hand witnesses).
Magazine or newspaper articles published at the same time (or nearly the same time) as the historical “thing” they are “talking about.”
Original documents such as birth certificates, property deeds, trial transcripts, census statistics, records and edicts of government agencies or actors.
Sample Secondary Sources:
California Archival Resources
Other Archival Resources