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Lisa Tarpley
HIS 100 – Q2122
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Module Four Activity: Bias in Primary Sources
Locate an additional primary source relevant to your historical event. Use it and the
primary source you identified in a previous module to answer the questions below.
Replace the bracketed text with your responses.
Source One
Conduct source analysis on a primary source relevant to your historical event.
Attempt to write the APA style citation for your first primary source and include a link
to it. You will not be penalized for incorrect format.
·
20161122_E1-founding-treaty-original-tre.pdf (nato.int)
Respond to the following questions:
· Who authored or created the primary source?
o The twelve founding members
· What was the author’s position in society at the time the primary source was created?
o Belgium – M. Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician
Canada – Prime Minister Mr. Lester B. Pearson
Denmark- Mr. Gustav Rasmussen, Danish Foreign Service
France- Robert M. Schuman, French politician
Iceland- Mr. Bjarni Benediktsson, Foreign Minister
Italy- Count Carlo Sforza, Italian diplomat
Luxembourg- M. Joseph Bech, Prime Minister, and Minister of Foreign Affairs
The Netherlands- Dr. Dirk U. Strikker, Foreign Minister
Norway – Mr. Halvard M. Lange, Foreign Minister
Portugal – Dr. Jose Caeiro da Matta, Minister of Foreign Affairs
The United Kingdom – Mr. Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary
The United States of America – Mr. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State
· When was the primary source created?
o April 4, 1949
· Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized?
o Washington, DC
· Who was the intended audience for the primary source?
o The treaty was for everyone
· Why was the primary source created?
o My primary source is the treaty itself. This treaty was created to secure peace in
Europe, promote cooperation among its members and guard their freedom.
· Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source?
o The perspective of this source is coming from the members of each country that
signed the treaty.
Source Two
Conduct a source analysis on a primary source relevant to your historical event.
Attempt to write the APA style citation for your second primary source and include a
link to it. You will not be penalized for incorrect format.
·
Lawrence S. Kaplan. (2007).
NATO 1948 : The Birth of the Transatlantic Alliance
. Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers
.
Respond to the following questions:
· Who authored or created the primary source?
o Lawrence S. Kaplan
· What was the author’s or creator’s position in society at the time the primary source
was created?
o Historian in the Historian’s Office of the Secretary of Defense
· When was the primary source created?
o 2007
· Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized?
o
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007
· Who was the intended audience for the primary source?
o History students in his NATO history classes at Kent State University and
Georgetown University
· Why was the primary source created?
O His assignment to examine the North Atlantic Treaty’s impact on the new
Department of Defense, led him to write this book.
· Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source?
o The author’s. In the preface the author states that his examination he questioned
“why the US waited almost 150 years to engage in another entangling alliance”.
Both Sources
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Analyze the primary sources relevant to your historical event for the presence of bias.
· Both primary sources I have listed, have great insight to what was happening in
society at the time the Treaty was signed. The first source gives direct insight to the
intentions and hopes for the North Atlantic Treaty, while the second source delves into
giving a direct perspective to the main question;
what was the perceived threat
from the Soviet Union that concerned the aligned western countries that formed
NATO?
Compare how your historical event is represented in your primary sources.
· The first source is the written treaty of the historical event. My second primary
source is written by an historian who specializes in the history of NATO.