Primary Source Analysis

Use the TAAP protocol: Topic, Author, Audience, Purpose

Types of resources that may be primary sources:
  • Books and articles written by the reformerSanger.jpg
  • Photographs
  • Memoirs
  • Letters
  • Interviews
  • Speeches

Check the table of contents in the following books for writings by your reformer.IdaBWells.jpg
These are collections of primary sources:
  • Annals of America, v. 12. Online version: Annals of American History
  • Dissent in America
  • The Progressive Movement 1900-1915
  • Readings in Twentieth Century American History

Several of the books on the cart are written by the reformers, which makes them primary sources.
For example:
  • History of the Standard Oil Company, by Ida Tarbell
  • Motherhood in Bondage, by Margaret Sanger
  • On Lynchings, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  • The Shame of the Cities, by Lincoln Steffens
  • Twenty Years at Hull House, by Jane Addams
  • How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York by Jacob Riis








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http://idabwells-barnett1.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/search/aboutwed.html