Primary Sources and the Five C's

Primary sources include:

• an eyewitness account of the nuclear bomb dropping on Hiroshima.

• your textbook, American Yawp

• the diary of a famous politician.

• the movie Oppenheimer.

Continuity...

• changes over time.

• ...always is changing

• ...never changes

• fluxuates up and down with time.

Secondary Sources...

• are accounts of the actual event.

• are historical inferences.

• can include primary sources.

• never include primary sources.

The reasons behind the dedication of the statue "Silent Sam" commemorating the loss of Confederate soldiers is a perfect example of

• Change over time

• Complexity

• Context

• Contingency

Change a single prior
condition, and any
historical outcome
could have turned out
differently.

This most sounds like...

• Causality

• Complexity

• Contingency

• Context

Chocktaw Chief Greenwood and his involvement in the practice of human slavery is an example of

• Continuity

• Complexity

• Change over time

• Contingency

Anne Frank's diary describing her life during World War 2

• Primary

• Secondary

A text book describing the Civil Rights Movement

• Primary

• Secondary

A scientist explaining what it was like for Buzz Aldrin to walk the moon

• Primary

• Secondary

A biography about Franklin Roosevelt

• Primary

• Secondary