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Primary & Secondary Sources

Interpretation, or, Fun With Primary Sources

Primary Sources Research Guide

Documents to compare & contrast:

• Scholarly Information
  
• "Stressed Moms, Schizophrenic Kids" (Time, 2/5/08)
• "Higher Risk of Offspring Schizophrenia Following Antenatal Maternal Exposure to Severe Adverse Life Events" (Archives of General Psychiatry, 2/08)

• Government Information
  
• "F.B.I. Director is Bombarded by Stinging Questions at Senate Hearing" (New York Times, 5/3/06)
• "FBI Oversight" (Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 5/2/06)

• Historical Information
  
• "Executive Order 9066" (Wikipedia.org)
• "Transcript of Executive Order No. 9066" (Ourdocuments.gov)
• "Army Gets Power to Move Citizens or Aliens Inland" (New York Times, 2/21/42)
  

• Images
  
• Guernica by Pablo Picasso
• "Picasso's Guernica" (Art Journal, 1971)

• Statistics
  
• "Women Feed the Jump in College Enrollment" (USA Today, 9/12/07)
• "College Enrollment by Sex, Age, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1980 to 2005" (U.S. Census Bureau)

• Speeches
• "It Was Always Headed Here" (Newsweek, 3/31/08)
• "A More Perfect Union" (delivered by B. Obama 3/18/08 in Philadelphia, PA)
• Transcript of speech

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Finding Background Information

• Getting Started with Research
• Most Common Reference Tools
  
• Encyclopedias
  

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Images

• bread line
  
• Images slide show

• Places to find images:
• Moving Images (Archive.org)
  
• ArtSTOR - fine art images
  
• Associated Press (AP) Images - photojournalism
• Google Images
• Google Video (includes youtube)
  
• UO Digital Collections - digitized materials from the UO Libraries

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Scholarly & Popular Sources

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Last Modified: 04/22/2008