How Do Historians Study the Past

Historians are people who study history which is a science about the past. Historians use two types of sources which are primary and secondary sources. Primary sources are scripts or articles which were written in that very time when the historical event has been happening which the article tells about. Secondary sources are as well scripts document now a day’s CD's, ads, and blogs. These two categories have to more categorize which are written and non-written sources. When we say written sources, most of us will think just only of books but there is much more then books like: speeches, posters, newspaper articles, government papers, songs, poems, etc. What falls under the non-written sources? Good question. Under non-written sources fall such as: tombs, graveyards churches, archeological places, temples, etc. Anyway, historians will always ask 5 very important questions which will evaluate the sources, the 3 main types of evaluation are: is the source accurate, is the source valid and is the source reliable. These are the 3 most important evaluations of a historical source. As I have said historians will always question the five very important questions in order to evaluate the source: who was the writer? What kind of source is it? Where was the source produced? When was the source produces? Why was the source produced? These are the five main questions which a historian will always ask order to evaluate the source by the three categorize of evaluation.