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What is the main difference between primary and secondary sources?

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Primary sources are firsthand, while secondary sources are made secondhand

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firsthand meaning by someone who was there to experience an event and recorded the experience (diary, autobiography, voice recording)

secondhand meaning by someone who is telling the account of another person when they didn't experience it themselves (biography, a movie based on true events)

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