Primary source excercise Wk1

Primary sources are the raw materials of history -- created by people who were there. Your textbook is what historians call a secondary source -- it's mostly modern historians telling the story, based on their research in primary sources.

But real historians (and we're real historians now, or will be) don't just settle for secondary sources, they want to go to the horse's mouth, so to speak. So each week we'll have a little exercise to  spend some time with primary sources. 

This week is just defining our terms. So start by reading this handout that I've adapted from the Library of Congress: Introduction to using primary sources.pdf

And then you're ready for the following little quiz. As with our other quizzes, you can exit this and come back, but once you click the Submit button, you're done with it

NOTE: Your usual Primary Source Exercise will be worth only 5 points -- but this is a double-size one to start you thinking about primary sources before we really get into it next week. Maybe this means we'll get to skip one later on in the semester!.