Primary source
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primary-source-175-18759862
title:
Primary source
text:
In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study. It serves as an original source of information about the topic. Similar definitions can be used in library science and other areas of scholarship, although different fields have somewhat different definitions. In journalism, a primary source can be a person with direct knowledge of a
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Original source of information created at the time under study
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_source
date created:
2003-02-02T07:05:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T16:39:14Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Pompeii-couple.jpg","width":908,"height":998}
fields total:
13
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16