Primary sources are eyewitness accounts of historical events. As such, they are precious to historians since they provide a fly-on-the-wall glimpse of history in the making by those who witnessed that history. Though I don't expect you to be an expert on analyzing primary sources immediately, by the end of our course, you will be. This assignment grows out of the article I assigned last week -- “Windows on the Past: Primary Sources and Why They’re Important.” That reading contains two videos showing you how historians source their documents and the types of questions they ask about them