Reading Like a Historian

Sources that provide information created during the time of study including documents, diaries, and paintings.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Corroboration

• Bias

Source that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the event.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Corroboration

• Bias

Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group. It is often considered unfair.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Corroboration

• Bias

Act of understanding who wrote a document, where they wrote it, and why they wrote it, for the purposes of analysis or interpretation.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Corroboration

• Sourcing

Evidence which confirms or supports a statement, theory, or finding; confirmation

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Corroboration

• Sourcing

Historical circumstances that surround a primary source. (Time, Place, and Setting)

• Context

• Audience

• Point of View

• Purpose

Group that the source was written or create for.

• Context

• Audience

• Point of View

• Outside Knowledge

Someone's perspective towards people, issues, ideas, or events.

• Audience

• Point of View

• Purpose

• Outside Knowledge

Reason the document was created (entertain, persuade, inform, etc.)

• Audience

• Point of View

• Purpose

• Outside Knowledge

Connections to other sources or previous events to find similarities and differences.

• Point of View

• Purpose

• Outside Knowledge

• Context