(A) Write any four sources to know history.
(B) Write short note on any two sources to know history.
Answers
(A)
Historical sources include documents, artifacts, archaeological sites, features. oral transmissions, stone inscriptions, paintings, recorded sounds, images (photographs, motion picture), and oral history.
(B) (1) Written Sources
Written sources are those which are in the form of written text. They are used by historians to reconstruct ancient, medieval and modern history. Some examples of written sources that give us information about history are Government are newspapers, Gazettes, diaries, reference books and official correspondences.
(2) Material Sources
The geographical origin of naturally occurring vegetable, animal or geological materials which either have been used to form an object or form specimens or deposits in their own right eg a quarry source for stone, country of origin of timber, geological outcrop for imported stone or fossil.
Answer:
Two types of source.
1. Primary source
2. secondary source
Primary sources include documents or artifacts created by a witness to or participant in an event. They can be firsthand testimony or evidence created during the time period that you are studying.
Primary sources may include diaries, letters, interviews, oral histories, photographs, newspaper articles, government documents, poems, novels, plays, and music. The collection and analysis of primary sources is central to historical research.
Secondary sources analyze a scholarly question and often use primary sources as evidence.
Secondary sources include books and articles about a topic. They may include lists of sources, i.e. bibliographies, that may lead you to other primary or secondary sources.
Databases help you identify articles in scholarly journals or books on a particular topic.
The Articles link in the navigation bar at the left provides links to databases that will lead you to secondary sources (primarily articles).
The Books link in the navigation bar at the left provides information for locating secondary sources via UW Libraries Search.