An important question that we would randomly ask ourselves is “How do historians determine what happened in the past?”. Which is actually a great question, which my essay with explain. Historians studied history by putting bits and pieces together to make a whole. Let me explain, you have to have context when making a conclusion. Therefore historians would have to study a primary source first. A primary source is information from a person who was there to experience the event. They analyze that source, among with other primary sources to come up with a conclusion. That conclusion is called a secondary source, which is based off a person who took evidence from another source, it’s like a newspaper or an article while a primary source is
