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  • History, when studied
    • Can teach many critical skills
  • Sources of Historical Data
    • Written sources
    • Non-written sources
  • Written Sources of History
    • Narrative or literary
    • Diplomatic or juridical
    • Social documents
  • Non-written Sources of History
    • Interviews
    • Films
    • Photos
    • Recordings of music
    • Clothing
    • Buildings
    • Tools
  • Primary Source
    • Original item that provides evidence about the past
    • A piece of evidence created during the period under investigation
    • 'Raw materials' often considered as the foundation of historical research and writing
    • Can be an eyewitness account or a firsthand account of a particular event
    • Can either be written or unwritten
  • Kinds of Primary Sources
    • Personal journals/diaries/memoirs/parish records
    • Letters, newspaper, magazine
    • Court proceedings, legislative debates
    • Movies, music, art
    • Objects or artifacts (e.g. clothes, jewelry, farming implements)
  • Secondary Source
    • Piece of historical entity that is anchored in primary sources
    • Usually an assessment or a commentary of events, people, or institution of the past
    • Offer an analysis or a restatement of primary sources
  • Kinds of Secondary Sources
    • Books and articles produced by historians
    • Pieces of art, literature, music, etc. created later to represent life in that time period
  • Primary or Secondary?
    • A diary written by a soldier who fought in the war (Primary)
    • A biography of Jose Rizal written by American biographer Austin Craig (Secondary)
    • A TV documentary filmed by a reporter who experienced the onslaught of Typhoon Yolanda (Primary)
    • A newspaper article about the People Power Revolution written on February 25, 1986 (Primary)
    • A 2010 journal article about the Philippine Revolution against Spain with a formal writing style, bibliography at the end, and lots of analysis and interpretation (Secondary)
    • A book about the World War II where the author says things like "I was drafted at age 18..." (Primary)
  • Historical Revisionism
    The reinterpretation of a historical account or narrative based on actual facts and authenticated evidence
  • Historical Distortion
    When historical accounts or narratives are changed to suit "personal agenda". It involves disinformation and lies to change history