Is this Primary?! Is this Secondary?!
Look through these two tutorials to help you figure it out!
Finding primary sources is sometimes very easy, and sometimes not so easy! Read through the sections below to help you get ideas and understand research strategies that will help you locate primary sources in a variety of ways! (through Hope PRIMO, through searching on the internet, by looking through digital collections, and by looking through certain databases).
Use these terms as keywords in your search to help you find primary sources related to your subject. Try to think about in what format/genre the information might have been recorded in.
Another option is to search for your topic, then look at the refining options via "Genre," and then look for some primary source term, as mentioned above.
There are many fantastic digitization projects that are going on right now that make primary source materials much more easily accessible to you. Here are a couple of tips for looking for these as well as some portals to get you started on your research.