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Hist. Primary source
Question | Answer |
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What is a primary source | Direct evidence of a time and place |
What is a secondary source | Interpretation often made by scholars that are based on examination of primary sources |
Why use primary sources | It helps give people a feeling of what they're doing is real and they are not tampered with so that they are directly given without extra opinion |
Why might you not use primary sources | Primary sources are biased so you must look at many different sides to get the full story |
Which questions should you apply when using primary sources | How does the author know these details Where does this information come from Are the authors conclusions based on one piece or multiple |
Compare how to interpret a document from a visual source | Did the writer experience the events- doc. Vs what does the image show- pic Doc what was the author trying to show vs who what dominates your eye What bias does it reflect vs what is excluded from view |
How are historians detectives | Historians also must find evidence and dig deeper like a detective |