Chech out these videos to understand the difference between Primary and Secondary sources:
Why do we study History?
Ask yourself the following questions:
- What does history mean?
- Why do we study history?
- How do we knon how something occured if we were not there?
- How can someone know how people looked like 800 years ago?
- We don´t know very much about people form early times. Why?
- Do you know of any archaeological finding in your country?
History is full of problems that need to be solved...
Sometimes we might not know....we can only guess.
We rely on archaeological findings and sources!
Primary and Secondary sources
The main difference between the way detectives work and the way historians work are the events that they try to explain and the evidence they work with. Detectives look for witnesses and go and question them. In history this is usually not possible. Sometimes you cannot find survivors to ask them questions (for example during a battle).
Instead, historians have to collect their information from various sources and do the best they can with what they manage to collect. The big problem is that the sources may not tell them exactly what they want to know.
Because historians have only a limited number of sources to work from, they have to be very careful about how they use the sources that they do have. The sources that historians can use can be divided into two main types called primary and secondary.
A primary source is something that comes from the time that the historian is studying. Secondary sources are sources which do not come from the time that the historian is studying. These sources have got their information from other sources.
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