Thinking Like a Historian
A diary entry, a photograph, or an artifact from an event.
What is a primary source
A textbook or a modern biography written about a historical figure.
What is a secondary source?
The historical skill of comparing multiple sources to see if they agree on the fact.
What is corroboration?
An author’s strong preference or point of view that might lean toward one side or prejudice an account.
What is bias?
The act of looking at the setting, time, and environment surrounding an event to better understand why it happenened.
What is contextualization?