By primary sources, historians and researchers mean the actual documents from history, with very little interpretation.
Secondary sources mean ones that discuss history and some interpretation and comments. Someone tries to explain history.
Both of these are useful in different ways to help a person learn more about history. It is sometimes easier to use the secondary sources first to attain some grasp of the time, event, person, and place and then go back to the primary sources to read the real history for oneself.
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