HISTORY INFO

KNOW ABOUT THE

IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY

INTRODUCTION

‘History is the study of people, actions, decisions, interactions and behaviours’ History, however, is the study of the past. Given all the demands that press in from living in the present and anticipating what is yet to come, why bother with what has been?

H I S T O R I C A L S O U R C E S

-sources that contain important historical information.

Primary sources include documents or artifacts created by a witness to or participant in an event.

- may include diaries, letters, interviews, oral histories, photographs, newspaper articles, government documents, poems, novels, plays, and music.

Secondary sources analyze a scholarly question and often use primary sources as evidence.

- include books and articles about a topic. They may include lists of sources, i.e. bibliographies, that may lead you to other primary or secondary sources.