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When a historian is "sourcing" a document, what are they doing?

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Answer: See explanation

Step-by-step explanation:

Sourcing a document simply means inquiring about where a particular document came from in order to know the origins of the document, and also try to understand it.

Sourcing a document is regarded as the first step to take in order to understand historical documents.

Historians source a document by looking at who the author is, when the document was was created, why was it created and the purpose of the document.

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