Thinking Like a Historian

Original records produced by the people who participated in and witnessed the past.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Documents, texts, images, and objects about an event created by someone who was not present at the time of the event.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Which if the following is almost always a Primary Source?

• Newspaper

• Biography

• Diary

• Magazine

An autobiography is a _____________.

• Secondary

• Primary

• Tertiary

• Lie

Secondary sources are better than primary sources?

• True

• False

Primary Sources are always old

• True

• False

You are studying September 11, 2001. Which of the following would be a secondary source?

• A newspaper article written on 09/11/01.

• A newspaper article written on 9/11/22.

• Transcripts from phone calls made out of the World Trade Centers on 09/11/01.

• Video footage of the actual attacks.

To be in favor of or against something. How you feel about an event.

• bias

• barter

• fossil

• culture

Your textbook is an example of a

• primary source

• secondary source

• artifact

What is an inference?

• an artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, or other source that was created at the time of study

• created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events researched

• prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair

• an educated guess based on evidence & prior knowledge