Here's a great definition of primary sources  from the American Library Association:

"Primary sources are original records created at the time historical events occurred or well after events in the form of memoirs and oral histories. Primary sources may include letters, manuscripts, diaries, journals, newspapers, speeches, interviews, memoirs, documents produced by government agencies such as Congress or the Office of the President, photographs, audio recordings, moving pictures or video recordings, research data, and objects or artifacts such as works of art or ancient roads, buildings, tools, and weapons. These sources serve as the raw material to interpret the past, and when they are used along with previous interpretations by historians, they provide the resources necessary for historical research."

--Using Primary Sources on the Web, rev. 2008.

These are a few primary sources available to you online.

Here are a few collections of source documents in the library:

Try to add terms such as "sources" or "personal narratives" to your search terms to locate published sources, for example:

• spain--colonies--america--history--sources
• india--history--sources
• france--history--revolution--1789-1799--personal narratives
• spain--history--civil war--1936-1939--personal narratives

Not sure how to work with primary sources? Here are some great tips: