Origin Purpose Values Limitations You’ll be doing this for your Historical Investigation

Evaluating Sources

 Not everything you hear is true  Would you trust:   Your best friend’s diary?

Voldemort’s personal diary?

 A television commercial?

 A book written by Darth Vader?

 A Nazi newspaper?

Sources can be

Origin

 What is the source?

Capture of Saarbrucken. GIs of 70th Div seen with Nazi flag and portrait of Hitler. 22 Mar 1945. Photo: Corbis.

Purpose

 Why is the source?

Capture of Saarbrucken. GIs of 70th Div seen with Nazi flag and portrait of Hitler. 22 Mar 1945. Photo: Corbis.

Value

 How is the source useful?

Capture of Saarbrucken. GIs of 70th Div seen with Nazi flag and portrait of Hitler. 22 Mar 1945. Photo: Corbis.

Limitations

 What can’t the source tell us?

Capture of Saarbrucken. GIs of 70th Div seen with Nazi flag and portrait of Hitler. 22 Mar 1945. Photo: Corbis.

HOMEWORK

 Using what you now know about World War 1, your job is to use OPVL to analyze the Treaty of Versailles