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  • On Thursday, Ms. Ramírez is unleashing her corrective: The museum's 10-year-old International Center for the Arts of the Americas, which she heads, will launch a digital archive of artists' notes and other primary-source materials that scholars around the world will be able to tap to study the ideas, personalities and culture of post-1900 Latin American art.

    Derivative Works No More Judith H. Dobrzynski 2012

  • Ideally, a biographer wants the primary-source materials such as diaries and letters to capture a subject in his or her own words.

    We Remember - Eleanor Hatkin Freedman, 1924 - 1974 2010

  • It struck me that these were primary-source documents from the Civil War.

    Going Mutant Dr. Barry Leed 2010

  • For further notes, including an extended bibliography, a full list of interviews I conducted, links to government studies and maps, and downloadable primary-source materials, please visit www.mattdellinger.com/i69.

    Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

  • One was the rational sector that let me function as a journalist and a social historian — locating sources, conducting interviews, searching for primary-source documents, drafting an outline and then choosing the most precise sentences and words for the printed page.

    We Remember - Eleanor Hatkin Freedman, 1924 - 1974 2010

  • "We're the card catalog of primary-source documents — we're developing the data," he added.

    Times, ProPublica Journos Get $719,500 for Document Cloud 2009

  • Rather than synthesizing primary-source material and making arguments about what it means, he merely generates that material and moves on, hoping others will pick up the ball.

    The Man Who Made Curating an Art 2009

  • The Gospels are themselves profoundly historical documents, and primary-source at that!

    Sinful Certainty James F. McGrath 2009

  • "We're the card catalog of primary-source documents — we're developing the data," he added.

    Times, ProPublica Journos Get $719,500 for Document Cloud 2009

  • Rather than synthesizing primary-source material and making arguments about what it means, he merely generates that material and moves on, hoping others will pick up the ball.

    The Man Who Made Curating an Art 2009

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