# Questioning Historical Sources

Before trusting a historical source, ask: who made this, when, and why? — the answers shape how much weight the source should carry

Builds on: Different Accounts of the Same Event (hard, https://ai.page/c/different-accounts-of-the-same-event/en.md), Reading between the lines (soft, https://ai.page/c/reading-between-the-lines/en.md), Inferring Characters' Feelings and Motives (soft, https://ai.page/c/inferring-characters-feelings-and-motives/en.md), Vocabulary: historical thinking (hard, https://ai.page/c/vocabulary-historical-thinking/en.md), Understanding Why (soft, https://ai.page/c/understanding-why/en.md)

Concept id: questioning-historical-sources. Subject: history. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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