Min is writing an essay about the impact of the 1930s Dust Bowl on the development of the Southern Plains region of the United States. He finds an article from 2005 about cultural development in the Southern Plains region from 1930 to 1950, The article is considered which one of the following types of resources?

A. Primary source
B. Historical account
C. Secondary source
D. Contemporary source

Respuesta :

C. Secondary
Because the source wasn’t from the time that happened, there was a lot of sources that explained what happened back then

Answer: The right answer is the C) Secondary source.

Explanation: Just to elaborate a bit on the answer, it can be added that an article written in 2005 about an event that happened in the 1930s cannot be considered a contemporary source (D), since it was written decades later. In addition, it cannot be considered a historical account, since historical accounts, or chronicles, do not usually offer an interpretation of the events, and the article probably does, since it was written at a much later time. Likewise, the article cannot be considered a primary source, since primary sources are documents that offer a first-hand account of the specific historical event (a letter, a contract, a photograph, an artifact), and, although the author of the article may have used and interpreted primary sources in order to write it, his or her work is not a primary source. The article is, therefore, a secondary source, since it was created by someone who was not alive when the event that he or she is talking about happened, but is (usually) well-informed about it and attempts at describing and clarifying it for a contemporary audience.