Primary+Source+Analysis



Analyzing primary sources is where historians gather the most accurate information from past events. The modern use of the internet, especially wikipedia, has discouraged young historians away from reading primary sources. "I want to know now and the internet will tell me right now," is the unfortunate state we find our society in. Today we are going to use no technology, no history books and no teacher guided questions, we are going to use old fashion primary source analysis to define nationalism. Each group will have 1 primary source, 1 pencil and 1 peice of paper and thats it!!! This activity will not only define nationalism for us but we will also explain why it occurred and what possible benefits and disadvantages nationalism will present to Europe in the 19th century.

What is nationalism? (look at the word nationalism what is the key word?)

Analyze the date (if one is not present look at the way it is written what language is used can you pick out familiar terms that associate with the time period) and try to list important historical events from around that time period.