Your assignment requires secondary sources.
Use the descriptions here to review the different kinds of resource types.
Primary Sources
Definitions from NYU Libraries. Adapted from The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2008.
A page from John Washington’s diary in 1858. (left) and a letter written by Maria Perkins to her husband while she was a slave. (right).
Article from the Atlanta Constitution, 1874.
Secondary Sources
Definitions from NYU Libraries. Adapted from The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2008.
Wintory, B. (2009). The House that Cotton Built: Recovering African American History at Lakeport Plantation.
Arkansas Review: A Journal Of Delta Studies, 40(2), 100-104.
Tertiary Sources
Definitions from NYU Libraries. Adapted from The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2008.
Rodriguez, Junius P. Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia.
Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2007. Print.
Wikipedia, Slavery in the United States. 2017.
Primary Source | Secondary Source | |
Art: | original artwork | article critiquing the piece of art |
History: | slave diary | book about the Underground Railroad |
Literature: | poem | book or article on a particular genre of poetry |
Political Science: | treaty | essay on Native American land rights |
Science or Social Sciences: | report of an original experiment | review of several studies on the same topic |
Theater: | videotape of a performance | biography of a playwright |
Examples from Georgetown University Library.