Page Title Newspapers, like some other types of documents, often display characteristics of both primary and secondary sources.
News articles offer dramatic first person accounts of community news or important past events.
Other features, such as photographs or obituaries, provide detailed insight into the history of a community and the lives of its residents. Advertisements include commentary about the area's social history. In this respect, they represent primary source documents. However, they are also products of the time in which they were created. Newspapers, like so many other historical sources, never escape the snare of human bias.