Monday, September 26, 2011

How do Historians learn about the past?

You probably thought how do historians learn about the past and how they find all the things required to say that, that happened in the past. They find that out by finding primary and secondary sources. Primary sources are documents or physical objects. Secondary sources are source that interprets and analyzes primary sources. There are also written and non written sources. It is really hard to figure out what happened in the past because there were no written sources and they didn't get the perspective of woman. Their are five major steps of how they will do for finding evidence. First they gather a variety of sources then they categorize sources to written and non written. Then they evaluate sources, questioning time of origin, after that they evaluate source and finally share their findings with the world. So that is how historians learn about the past.

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