Why Do Historians Use Secondary Sources

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Historians use secondary sources more often because lots of primary evidence are put together in secondary sources, most secondary sources show all points of views, and lastly, secondary sources uncover background historical information. To start off, secondary source is a combination of primary evidence and research. This lets the historian explore many first hand evidence(s) and research under a certain topic. For example, the Creating Canada textbook is a secondary source, and has variety of primary evidences like pictures and letters. The textbook provides a picture of child labour from WW1, which is the primary source; the text beside the child labour picture is the secondary detail (Creating Canada, 189). Moving on, secondary sources