HISTORY 40B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tippecanoe River, William Marbury, Indian Removal Act
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Primary sources: (lecture powerpoint 1, slides 18-28): materials produced by people or groups directly involved in the event or topic under consideration, either as participants or witnesses. Primary sources provide the evidence that historians use to describe and interpret the past. Secondary sources: (lecture powerpoint 1, slide 29): texts books, articles, films that are created by people who were not eye-witnesses to events or periods in question. Authors synthesize, analyze and interpret primary sources; this work helps readers to become acquainted with a time period or event. Provides important information about how authors have understood and interpreted events. Historiography: (lecture powerpoint 1, slide 30): historians frequently disagree about how to interpret events. Varied approaches might lead to an evaluation of different sources for particular time periods. Historical perspectives change over time interpretation is affected by context or changes in methodology.
