What was life like for people in the past? One way to learn more is to look at primary sources. A primary source is a form of information about the past from a person who was there. It can be a photograph, a letter, or a speech. Other things can be primary sources too. Click on a primary source below.
- Mabel Hubbard Bell Writes to Her Husband, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell—Letter
- General Colin Powell—Speech
- U.S. Money—Artifacts
- An Old Price List—Artifact
- John F. Kennedy's First Speech as President—Speech
- Poster for a Farm Workers Concert—Poster
- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's Goodbye Speech—Speech
- A Suffragist in 1914—Photograph
- Front Cover of the Constitution and Laws of the Cherokee Nation—Government Document