Think Like a Historian: Working with Primary Source Evidence

Pictures, paintings and images can provide snapshots from history. Photographs, in particular, seem to provide an unbiased depiction of events. But is this really the case? We are aware that paintings, photographs and images can be staged, edited or manipulated. Historians know that careful examination, and often more research, is called for in decoding the context of historical images.

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