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    This document defines and provides examples of primary and secondary sources for historians. It explains that primary sources are original materials created by participants or eyewitnesses to events, such as photographs, maps, writings, and oral histories. Secondary sources are interpretations and analyses of primary sources created by people who were not present at the event, such as books, articles, and scholarly journals. Primary sources are directly relevant to understanding events in history, while secondary sources discuss and interpret primary sources to explore different aspects of historical events.

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    This document defines and provides examples of primary and secondary sources for historians. It explains that primary sources are original materials created by participants or eyewitnesses to events, such as photographs, maps, writings, and oral histories. Secondary sources are interpretations and analyses of primary sources created by people who were not present at the event, such as books, articles, and scholarly journals. Primary sources are directly relevant to understanding events in history, while secondary sources discuss and interpret primary sources to explore different aspects of historical events.

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    10/19/22, 7:22 AM Module 2: UNDERSTANDING SOURCES

    Module 2: UNDERSTANDING SOURCES

    3. What is Sources?

    What is Sources?

    What is Sources?

    In his work, Understanding History,


    Gottschalk (1950) discusses the importance of sources for the historian’s work:

    The historian, however, has


    to use many materials that are not in books. Where these are archeological,
    epigraphical, or numismatical materials,
    he has to depend largely on museums.
    Where there are official records, he may have to search for them in archives,
    courthouses, government
    libraries, etc. Where there are private papers not
    available in official collections, he may have to hunt among the papers of
    business houses, the
    muniment rooms of ancient castles, the prized possessions
    of autograph collectors, the records of parish churches, etc. Having some
    subject in
    mind, with more or less definite delimitation of the persons, areas,
    times, and functions (I.o, the economic, political, intellectual, diplomatic,
    or
    other occupational aspects) involved, he looks for materials that may have
    soe bearing upon those persons in that area at the time they function
    in that
    fashion. These materials are his sources. The more precise his delimitation of
    persons, area, time and function, the more relevant his
    sources are likely to
    be. (52－53)

    It is from historical sources that our


    history is studied and written. But in analyzing them, several methodologies
    and theories were used by
    historians to properly study history and glean from
    the sources what is, for them, a proper way of writing history to enhance and
    disseminate
    national identity.

    Primary sources are materials produced by people or groups are either


    participants or eyewitnesses to the event. These sources range from
    eyewitness
    accounts, diaries, letters, legal documents, official documents (government or
    private), and even photographs.

     Examples primary sources: 

    1.          
    Photographs
    that may reflect social conditions of historical realities and everyday life

    2.          
    Old
    sketches and drawings that may indicate the conditions of life of societies in
    the past

    3.          
    Old
    maps that may reveal how space and geography were used to emphasize trade
    routes, structural build-up, etc.

    From the private


    collection of Emmanuel Encarnacion

    FIGURE 1. Map showing the Katipunan movement by D.A.


    Navarro

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    4.          
    Material
    evidence of the prehistoric past like cave drawings, old syllabaries, and
    ancient writings 

    5.          
    Statistical
    tables, graphs, and charts

    6.          
    Oral
    history or recordings by electronic means of accounts of eyewitnesses or
    participants: the recordings are then transcribed and
    used for research.

    7.          
    Published
    and unpublished primary documents, eyewitness accounts, and other written
    source

    From the private


    collection of Emmanuel Encarnacion

    FIGURE 2.           Front page of The Sunday Tribune published


                                                  February
    10, 1935 featuring the approval of the
                               Constitution
    of the Philippine Commonwealth

    Secondary Sources

    Gottschalk simply defines secondary sources as “the


    testimony of anyone who is not an eyewitness－that is of one who was not present at the
    event of
    which he tells” (p. 53). These are books, articles, and scholarly journals that
    had interpreted primary sources or had used them to
    discuss certain
    subjects of history

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