Primary resources are items that directly relate to your research topic. The difference between a primary resource and secondary resource depends on your research topic.
Primary resources are:
If you were writing about how boxing champions were trained in the 1920s, your primary resources should all be direct proof of how 1920s boxing champions were trained. Some primary resources could be:
For your topic, a book written in 1993 about the history of boxing would not be a primary resource.
This course focuses on the years 1815-1960, so primary sources should be within those dates or possibly before.
For extra guidance on how to find and use primary sources, please visit USA Marx Library's Primary Source Guide.
Concept of Empire: Burke to Attlee, 1774-1947Early Letters by English Historical DocumentsEnglish Historical Documents, 1906-1939: A SelectionInvisible Immigrants: The Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America
Monarch of All I Survey : Bechuanaland Diaries, 1929-37
Parliament and Politics in the Age of Churchill and Attlee: the Headlam Diaries, 1935-1951Parliamentary Diaries of Sir John Trelawny, 1858-1865Shoulder to Shoulder : A DocumentarySources of English Constitutional History: A Selection of Documents from A.D. 600 to the PresentThey Saw It Happen; an Anthology of Eyewitness’s Accounts of Events in British History, 1689-1897War Memoirs of David Lloyd George
Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History: Documents and Essays