The Dance Between Primary and Secondary Sources in History

In working on a book, the primary sources are primary. You have to be as familiar as possible with all of the history that's been written since that period. So you do this dance between the primary sources and the secondary sources. I think it was really a fight about individual freedom and making a home for individual freedom. In the book and in the series we highlight individuals for that reason.

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