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U.S. History 1877-Present 1: Primany and Secondary Sources 215 Views
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We've got your back when it comes to sourcing. And before we start, no, Uncle Moe's dreams about his past life as Queen Victoria won't cut it..for history at least.
Transcript
- 00:04
my source, my source my kingdom for a source while Shakespeare
- 00:07
may have taken artistic license with history in his place but you can't do [Shakespeare looking bored]
- 00:11
the same with your history homework i.e there's the rub for in that artistic
- 00:15
license what disapproving looks from your teacher may come instead you're [student puts her hand in the air]
- 00:20
going to make extensive use of sources as you research and write about the past
Full Transcript
- 00:24
what are sources? Oh so glad you asked no seriously we've been waiting for someone [Girl celebrating with a what is a source? banner]
- 00:28
asked us for years, we had a banner made and everything. Well primary
- 00:32
sources are original materials that were either created at the time of the [Holy Bible book in outer space]
- 00:36
historical event or at a later time by someone with first-hand knowledge of
- 00:40
said event a newspaper article published yesterday that talks about the Civil [two students assessing a civil war article]
- 00:44
War would not be a primary source because it was written 150 years after
- 00:48
the event but a letter written by a Civil War soldier to his ladylove back [Civil war soldier writing a letter]
- 00:52
home would be as primary as it gets, also might be a little sexy like ohh, i can see
- 00:57
your ankles in the picture, in that overly polite 19th century kind of [Civil war soldier looking at a picture of his wife]
- 01:01
way. Okay now let's talk about what isn't a primary source oh we might call
- 01:05
them secondary sources well not might that's what we're supposed to call them
- 01:09
secondary sources are anything written about the past that wasn't written at [old book covers floating in space]
- 01:13
the time or by someone with first-hand knowledge of the event so secondary
- 01:17
sources are usually texts that use a bunch of primary sources to put a spin
- 01:21
on the past which is most every book of history ever with all that spinning [a rollercoaster in motion]
- 01:26
let's hope history doesn't spew. Well, let's get back to primary sources here
- 01:30
because secondary are well, secondary to us now here are some of the
- 01:34
most important categories texts; a text is any primary source that's written down
- 01:38
it might be published like books or newspapers or there might be personal [ a stack of books and newspapers]
- 01:42
like letters or they might be super personal like that secret diary George
- 01:46
Washington kept under his bed which may or may not have contained zombie erotica [George Washington hiding a book under his bed and a green zombie appears]
- 01:50
fan fiction, who knew? next category images will predictably images any primary
- 01:55
source that is mostly visual paintings, drawings, photographs, posters, tapestries,
- 02:00
Edison's napkin doodles, cave wall paintings, you know that kind of stuff
- 02:04
next up recordings, well audio primary sources only go back to the mid 19th [a red indian using an old recording device]
- 02:09
century when the technology was invented but for the last hundred fifty years we
- 02:13
recordings of music, oral histories, interviews, radio programs bunch of other
- 02:17
stuff like that this kind of fits with visuals too but there's also old films [two men hitting each other with bags]
- 02:20
and videos like all those shows Grandparents watch on Netflix at least
- 02:24
the Grandparents who've you know figured out how to make Netflix work [Grandparents attempting to watch Netflix]
- 02:27
don't they have to call you like 18 times to set it up.. All right then
- 02:32
last of all objects this category includes just about everything else
- 02:35
clothing, toys, coins, tools and any other object that was made in this past [bowling ball hits a TV and explodes]
- 02:39
technically this counts the tuna casserole that's been in our break room fridge for
- 02:43
a month but everybody's too scared to delve into the history of that, for [woman looks into the fridge and sees an old tuna casserole and runs away]
- 02:47
good reason
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