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Transcribed Image Text:Module 1 Primary source assignment – Political/Economic/Intellectual
Portrait of the Royall Family, 1741
One of the key skills history students must learn is how to use primary sources. A primary source
can be a document, artwork, artifact, or oral-history interview, just so long as it tells us
something about the past and is as close as we can get to the past. Primary sources are those
sources created by people who participated in an event, witnessed it firsthand, or at least heard
about it from a credible witness.
Historians ask all manner of questions about primary sources. Here I have tried to group such
questions into six larger categories, to suggest a means by which to approach an unfamiliar
source.
1. What sort of source is this? What is the subject matter? When was it created? Who is the
intended audience?
2. Why was this document created/what purpose does this document serve? Now begins the
analysis: Consider why this work was commissioned. What has motivated this family to have
their portraits painted?
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