Why Use Primary Sources?
Primary Sources are helpful in contextualizing a historic event, person or time period and serve as an access point as to how it may have been viewed in its current time.
Digitized Primary Sources can be found in the Library Catalogue ans well as on the broader web. Even more can be found in access archive, museum and library collection around the world including McMaster's very own William Ready Archives and Research Collections house in Mills Memorial Library.
Primary Resources
Finding Primary Sources in the Catalogue
In the Library Catalogue search for your topic and include one of the following words or phrases:
- autobiography
- correspondence
- description and travel
- diaries
- interviews
- letters
- personal narratives
- public opinion
- pictorial works
- sources