GALVJ The War of 1812 Primary Sources Pack (9780635131591)

how do we know about the past I mean we see the past portrayed in movies television shows books and other media but how the historians actually know what happened welcome to the first episode of a history toolkit where you too can learn the skills and investigative techniques of real historians and master the past yourself in our first episode we'll look at the sources of history namely primary and secondary sources think about all the ways we learn about the past movies books television shows video games old journals artifacts old photographs old buildings bones paintings there are practically unlimited numbers of sources which talk about the past in some way but are they all equal in history we classify sources into two types primary and secondary a primary source is anything anything at all which was created by humans in the time period we are studying so say for instance you were in