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Secondary Sources

What are secondhand accounts?

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Magazines on display in a store in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Secondary sources are secondhand accounts of what people have said and written. Secondary sources are not original sources. Instead, they are interpretations of a primary source. Some secondary sources are listed below.

  • magazine articles
  • textbooks
  • reports
  • encyclopedias
  • newspaper articles
    (that give an opinion)
  • documentaries
  • biographies