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Can you help me understand this History question?

1) Read the definitions of primary and secondary sources posted below.

2) Find a primary source from the present time (anything recent or within the last few months). In the discussion forum below tell us what your source is and explain what it says about the social, political, or economic times we live in. In other words, how will historians use your primary source to write about this period?

Primary Sources-

A primary source provides direct or firsthand evidence about an event, object, person, or work of art. Primary sources include historical and legal documents, eyewitness accounts, results of experiments, statistical data, pieces of creative writing, audio and video recordings, speeches, and art objects. Interviews, surveys, fieldwork, and Internet communications via email, blogs, listservs, and newsgroups are also primary sources. In the natural and social sciences, primary sources are often empirical studies—research where an experiment was performed or a direct observation was made. The results of empirical studies are typically found in scholarly articles or papers delivered at conferences.

Secondary Sources-

Secondary sources describe, discuss, interpret, comment upon, analyze, evaluate, summarize, and process primary sources. Secondary source materials can be articles in newspapers or popular magazines, book or movie reviews, or articles found in scholarly journals that discuss or evaluate someone else’s original research.

Source: (Ithaca College Library)