HIS 100 Module Two Activity Template: Primary and Secondary Sources
Replace the bracketed text below with your responses.
Non-graded portion
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List your historical research topic here: o
Tulsa Massacre Graded portion:
Distinguish between primary and secondary sources.
A primary source is a firsthand account of an event that happened, data from a study, or an original work. Secondary sources are a step removed from primary sources. Essentially, they’re sources about primary sources.
Explain why it is important to consult a variety of sources when conducting historical research. Include specific details and examples.
[It is important to consult a variety of different sources when doing historical research because when we write a research paper, we are creating a secondary source based on our own analysis of primary source material that we research. Primary sources are valuable to historians because they give insight into the ways in which historical figures understood and internalized what they experienced and sacrificed which plays a major role in history today and give historians an understanding of historical figures’ opinions and events. Using various sources such as primary helps others relate in a personal way to events of the past and promote a deeper understanding
of history.
Identify one primary
source that would help investigate your research question (include the title, author, and link to the source).
A primary source I feel would help me understand and elaborate more on my Human Rights and
Inequality research question would be letters or article to understand the past events that may have happened in affecting those such as Rosa parks. And another primary source for current issues in today’s society would be to qualitative or quantitative data that I collect through Interview transcripts, Newspaper and magazine articles, and social media post which everyone uses now a days to express any form of opinion
Identify one secondary
source that would help investigate your research question (include the title, author, and link to the source).
A secondary source I feel would help me understand and elaborate more on my Human Rights and Inequality research question would be commentaries, Biographies, Documentary films, Essays in anthologies and Literary criticism. Choose a current event related to the subject of your historical research question and explain how they are connected.
Police brutality is related to my research question because racism is the main reason for officer’s
killing our African Americans.
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