World History › Section A · Studying the past and early humans › Topic A.2
Working with primary sources
Everything historians claim rests on sources: the letters, coins, buildings and chronicles that people left behind. This topic teaches how to classify sources and how to interrogate them — who wrote a source, for whom, why, and in what circumstances — so you can weigh evidence instead of just reading it.
In this topic
- Two kinds of sources
- Four questions for any source
- Judging online sources
- Buildings and objects as sources
- Worked example: reading a coin as evidence
- Worked example: weighing two accounts
- Rhetoric: language as a clue
- Whose voices survive
- Unequal records across the regions
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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