Special Topic: "Is the Past a Foreign Country?"

Assignment:

Please go to: "What are Primary Sources?" and read sections 1 (What are Primary Sources?), 1a ("Mindwalk" Activity), 2 (Analysis of Primary Sources), & 3 (Types of Primary Sources)

Then, write your answers to the following questions:

• How can the historical record be both huge and limited?
• What makes a primary source more or less reliable?
• How do historians use different kinds of primary sources?
• To what extent is history based on fact and/or opinion?