Historical Hack: Interpreting History

What you’ll learn to do: make sense of primary sources covering the same event from different perspectives and understandings

In this historical hack, we will learn to reconcile eyewitness accounts of events from multiple perspectives. What happens when these accounts do not offer the same details or do not reach the same conclusions? Although they might seem to clash, we can understand these seeming contractions by considering three aspects of primary sources: their emphasis, their perspective, and their significance.