a source that is from someone that was not a the place
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IN history a secondary source is a document or commentary that quotes or references a primary source without first-hand knowlege of the activity or event
Primary sources, secondary sources, and oral history.
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.
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.
literary sources are more useful than archaeological sources for writing history