Explore the Web for additional primary data documents about social welfare policy. The older the documents, the better, if they provide context for our understanding, illustrating personal views of the day or adding a sense of the people involved in the policy structure. This moves our own understanding from a dry survey of policy change to one with a human face. Be sure to record the URL where you access additional primary data documents about social welfare. You will need the URL for this unit’s discussion.

In addition to your Web site search for primary data documents, examine the following Web sites for a fuller explanation of what is meant by primary resources, how they are important to our understanding of history, and how they can be used to our advantage in this course and others:

AT least one reference

http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/