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Q An 1896 election pin in support of Bryan. Points for this Forum: 50 Deadline for the Initial Post: before Friday is over (PST). (Hint: 12:01 a.m. on Saturday is a late Initial Post.) Deadline for ONE Response Post: by Sunday, before 11 p.m. PST Before students can see the responses of others, they must first post their complete Initial Post. Put all answers to the forum questions in the Initial Post before the Friday deadline. Post that completed Initial Post "initially," or risk losing half of the points offered in this forum. Please avoid making all of your posts on the same day.

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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