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How do secondary sources help historian's understand the past ​

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Scholars writing about historical events, people, objects, or ideas produce secondary sources because they help explain new or different positions and ideas about primary sources.

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secondary sources are helpful because they are getting information from people who were apart of the primary situation sorry if I didn’t help
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