Primary sources
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The document distinguishes between primary and secondary sources. Primary sources are first-hand accounts or original records, such as interviews with former slaves or Holocaust survivors. Secondary sources are one step removed, like books written by historians based on primary research or government reports analyzing past events. Determining the credibility of differing accounts of an event may depend on the relationship of the source to the event and potential biases.
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Primary sources
- 2. Primary Source • First hand testimony or original records
- 3. Secondary Sources One step removed from primary sources.
- 5. Hollywood movie about the American Revolution made 2001. Book written by famous historian who is an expert on the America Revolution, published in 1999
- 8. Interview with former slave in 1936. The interviewer is a black man collecting oral histories for the Federal Writer’s Project. Interview with former slave in 1936. The interviewer is a white man collecting oral histories for the Federal Writer’s Project.
- 11. Interview with 80 year old Holocaust survivor in 1985. Map of concentration camp found in Nazi files.
- 14. Government film explaining internment from 1942. Government report on Japanese Internment from 1983 based on declassified government dociments
- 18. How could there be different stories of the event if no one is lying?
- 19. Who are the different people who might have seen this fight? • Example: friends of those involved; people who don’t know the kids who were fighting/ those who were fighting; teachers; students
- 20. What might make one person’s story more believable than another person’s?