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How do primary and secondary sources help us learn history?

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They allow for us to study the past they also give us different perspectives of what was occurring during that time period and also after it.
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They both are helpful for learning about the past, primary sources are usually considered to be items like personal letters and diaries. Secondary sources are those which are written about events in the past. They usually interpret those events through the lens of the time period in which they are written.
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