e. An account or narrative in which such knowledge is embodied.
2. The Sources of Historical Knowledge.
a. Primary sources.
1. Material remains—roads, buildings, tools, weapons, clothing, any material object shaped by man or associated with his life on the earth.
2. Reports of conditions and events made by actual observers. Such reports may be oral, written or printed, pictorial.
b. Secondary sources—reports or accounts based upon primary sources.
c. Accounts based upon other accounts in varying degrees of removal even from secondary sources.
d. Existing sources relate to fragments only of man’s total experience in the world.
3. Historical Criticism—the Foundation for the Determination of Particular Facts relating to the Past.
a. External criticism—investigation of the origin and transmission of sources; a study of form, language, writing. Is the material remaining authentic? Who was the author of the document? What did he say?