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POS 210: National and State Constitutions: Primary Sources

OntheWeb: Primary Docs

Government Documents OntheWeb

Govinfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch.
Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Government Publishing Office, Congressional Budget Office, and the LOC's Congressional Research Service.

Primary vs. Secondary Sources

Minnesotahistory. (2015, September 1). Primary vs. Secondary Sources [Video]. https://youtu.be/TgU1BcDStK0

Primary Sources

  • ​Artifacts 
  • Photographs
  • Audio recordings 
  • Diaries
  • Email
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Original Studies
  • Letters
  • Documents 
  • Government Documents
  • Photographs
  • Proceedings of Meetings, conferences, symposia
  • Speeches
  • Survey Research 
  • First-person video recordings  
  • Works of art
  • Works architecture
  • Works of literature
  • Works of music 
  • Newspaper articles written at the time of the even