{"id":232033,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essaysparlor.com\/?p=192971"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:16:11","slug":"primary-sources-in-history-breaking-through-the-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/primary-sources-in-history-breaking-through-the-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Sources in History: Breaking Through the Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the essay &#8220;Primary Sources in History: Breaking Through the Myths,&#8221; Keith Barton notes, \u201cUltimately, we cannot depend on any single source \u2013 primary or secondary \u2013 for reliable knowledge; we have to consult multiple sources in our quest to develop historical understanding.\u201d Barton then proceeds to identify seven common beliefs (myths, Barton terms them) associated with primary sources. What do you think? Has Barton made a viable case for his myth argument, and how; or why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the essay &#8220;Primary Sources in History: Breaking Through the Myths,&#8221; Keith Barton notes, \u201cUltimately, we cannot depend on any single source \u2013 primary or secondary \u2013 for reliable knowledge; we have to consult multiple sources in our quest to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/primary-sources-in-history-breaking-through-the-myths\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}