Understanding Historical Sources Flashcards
1
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the person who discussed the importance of sources for historians works?
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Gottschalk
2
Q
2 types of historical sources?
A
Primary sources and Secondary sources
3
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Primary sources
A
- direct or firsthand evidence about event, object, period
- original materials
- can be written or non written (Sounds, Pictures, Artifacts)
- describe all sources that are original
4
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types of Primary sources
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- Literary or cultural sources
- Accounts describe events, people/ideas
- Finding information about people
- Finding info about organization
-Finding info about place
5
Q
Example of Literary/cultural sources?
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- novels, plays or poems
- Television show, movies
- paintings
6
Q
example of accounts describe events
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- newspaper
- essay and speeches
- manifestos
7
Q
example of Information about people
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- census record
- obsituaries
- newspaper articles
- biographies
8
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example of information about organization
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- archives
- search, library catalog search
9
Q
example of finding information about place
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-maps and atlases
- census information
- statistics
- photographs
- city directories
- local library or historical society
10
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Secondary sources are that
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- describes, discuss analaze and summarize primary sources
- one or more steps removed from the event or time period
- provides non original or secondhand data
11
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gottschalk defines secondary sources as
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the testimony of anyone who is not an eyewitness
