Assignment #1

a. Primary sources and Secondary sources

Tertiary sources - summarize of primary and secondary sources

b. Primary sources - enable the researcher to get as close as possible to what actually happened during
an historical event or period time. produced at the same time as the event being studied

Historical method process of examining and analyzing the records and survival the past.

c. Secondary sources - produced by authors who used and interpreted primary sources. Analyzed a
scholarly question and often use primary source as evidence.

d. Primary sources are valuable to historian because they give insight into the ways in which historical
figures understood or internalized what they experienced their place or significance in history and give
historian an understanding of historical figures opinions.