Historians look at two types of sources when it comes to historical research, primary and secondary. Most students when writing a paper or working on a project will usually look at secondary sources which we know are writings about an event, not a first person account. Primary sources are the diaries or journals or interviews from people that surround a certain event. These sources can be extremely useful but also can often times hold bias. A diary entry from a king and an entry from a peasant about the same event are going to be extremely different.
I liked Brooke's question, it was what I was thinking about: with older primary sources how do we determine the authenticity?
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