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primary sources




Leigh wrote:

Incidentally, it should be clear to everyone that textbooks are not good
primary sources for historical evidence.

Not only are they not good primary sources, but they aren't primary sources
at all. They are by definition not primary sources for anything other than,
perhaps, as evidence for what the author of the text thinks (or
understanding) of a matter is. At best they can constitute secondary
sources; but quite typically they are more often than not, tertiary or
worse. (Texts tend to copy other texts.)

Joel