Question

Which source would best help a historian understand the effect of the Great Chicago Fire on families? A. a biography of a Chicago family displaced by the fire B. a letter from a grandmother in New York to her family in Chicago C. a newspaper editorial about families who were displaced D. an oral history dictated by an adolescent who fled the fire

Answer 1

D. an oral history dictated by an adolescent who fled the fire

Because this person experienced it first hand and knows more details than anyone who just watched from a distance.