1. Historical Sources
Core Concepts 9.2
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2. Primary and Secondary Sources
Primary Source-information directly from a person who experienced an event
Person writes, says or creates an event
Examples: letters, diaries, articles, posters, speeches, photographs (artifacts-object made by a human being)
Secondary Source-information about an event that does not come from a person who experienced that event.
Example: If I tell you about John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

3. Evaluating Historical Sources
Historical sources are not always accurate
Which do you think could be least accurate? Primary or Secondary source? Why?
When evaluating sources, ASK!
Who created the source? Are they reliable?
Is the information fact or opinion?
Is the material bias-unfairly preference(liking) for or dislike of something
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