HIS 100 Module Four Activity Bias Template
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HIS 100 Module Four Activity Template: 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 second primary source and include a link to it.
You will not be penalized for incorrect format.
[Moore, J.
& Hamilton, J.
(1999, December 15).
I was there: Great smog, 1952 ; I was there:
Jenny Hamilton
. ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/docview/338256166?
parentSessionId=TnqvuWSl8IN2mtx%2BF5Wzwb4ZKqWTiWfp9BzJuvgrIec%3D]
Respond to the following questions:
Who authored or created the primary source?
o
[James Moore created the primary source from statements of Jenny Hamilton.]
What was the author’s or creator’s position in society at the time the primary source was
created?
o
[Jenny Hamilton job was dispatching ambulances during the Great London Smog.]
When was the primary source created?
o
[The primary source was created in 1999.]
Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized?
o
[ProQuest publishing company.]
Who was the intended audience for the primary source?
o
[The intended audience is historians or people researching the Great London Smog
related to human health.]
Why was the primary source created?
o
[This source was created to provide the audience with perspective from someone who
experienced the event and how they felt.]
Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source?
o
[First person perspective of Jenny Hamilton.]
Source Two
Conduct source analysis on a primary source relevant to your historical event.
1
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.
[ Robson-Mainwaring, L. (2022, July 19).
The Great Smog of 1952
. The National Archives blog.
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/the-great-smog-of-1952/]
Respond to the following questions:
Who authored or created the primary source?
o
[Laura Robson-Mainwaring]
What was the author’s position in society at the time the primary source was created?
o
[Laura Robson-Mainwaring is a historian of the pharmaceutical industry. She has worked
at the national archives since 2019.]
When was the primary source created?
o
[The primary source was created July 19, 2022.]
Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized?
o
[The National Archives]
Who was the intended audience for the primary source?
o
[The intended audience of this source is people interested in the history of the Great
London Smog and environmentalist]
Why was the primary source created?
o
[To inform the audience about the history and policies and procedures following this
event, to instill less air pollution.]
Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source?
o
[The perspective presented in the source is in third person. She is referring to the
artifacts from the specific event. Such as newspaper articles, journal entries, and
photos.]
Both Sources
Analyze the primary sources relevant to your historical event for the presence of bias.
[Both sources define that the Great London Smog had a significant negative affect on human
health from the air pollution.]
Compare how your historical event is represented in your primary sources.
[The first source is much shorter and perspectives from only one person during the event. The
second source has evidence from multiple sources compiling an overall viewpoint.]
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