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materials used for the writing of history

materials that have been published for public use, such as books, magazines,
reading journals, travelogues, or speech transcripts

are any handwritten or typed record that has not been printed, such as archival materials,
memoirs, and diaries

such as oral history, artifacts, ruins, fossils, artworks, video and audio recordings

materials produced by people or groups directly involved in the event or topic being studied

range from eyewitness accounts, diaries, letters, legal documents, and official documents
(government or private) and even photographs

categories of primary sources

written by a firsthand wittness

visual documents published by an eye witnessoralmaterialsn

materials made by a firsthand witness

documented conversation by a firsthand witness published or written

materials that are analyze and interpret the primary sources