Generally speaking. No. The History Channel is a secondary source as they host guest speakers and experts who do the actual research. Usually a primary source is one who publishes the findings of research in a peer reviewed journal or publishes a statement in regards to non-scientific information.
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Historical sources are classified as primary and secondary source. The primary source refers to the written or developed document or object during the study and the secondary source refers to the analogy or interpretation of the primary source.
a source that is from someone that was not a the place
It important to know what a primary and secondary source is because it helps us destinguish a source that happended during the event and a source that the auther wrote from other sourceses that he/she read.
A primary source is a person (or a record produced by a person) who was actually there, as a witness or a participant of the event in question. A secondary source is someone who obtained information from a primary source and who then wrote or spoke about it. Primary sources are the more authoritative, however they are not always available, and sometimes you have to settle for lesser sources.
Primary sources (in history) are things such as documents produced at the time. A secondary source is something written later by a historian. Good examples of primary source documents are legal notices, letters, diaries, newspapers, maps, flags, important documents, clothes, and even furniture.