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GE 2 Midterm Exam Reviewer
GE 2 Midterm Exam Reviewer
Source – an object from the past on which historians depend in order to create their own
depiction of that past.
Kinds of Sources
1. Written Sources – Books, Magazines, Journals, Diary
2. Non-written Sources – Oral History, Pictures, Video Recordings, Artifacts, Fossils
Types of Sources
1. Primary Sources – document first hand experiences of the event.
• Personal interviews
• Journals/diaries
• First-hand experience (your personal experience)
• Government records (Land title, birth certificate, cedula, etc…)
• Photographs
• Videos (Vlog entries too)
• Maps, Art, Film archives, Artifacts
Involves:
1. Selection of Subject
2. Collection of Sources
3. Examination of Genuineness
4. Extraction from Sources
➢ Test of Authenticity
- Determine the date of the document
- Determine the author (handwriting, signature, seal)
- Anachronistic style
- Anachronistic reference to events
- Provenance – determining genuineness
- Semantics – meaning of each text.
- Hermeneutics – determining ambiguities.