A secondary process for the linking of these materials to the New Handbook of Texas Online will be developed . The Community in History project will develop a process that will enable a teacher at any school to work with his or her students to develop material about their community that is appropriate for publication as a part of the historical record. The diagram above gives a rough overview of the process. Inititial thoughts about each of these steps is presented below, beginning with the bottom of the diagram and working up toward the stage where material is incorporated into the Handbook of Texas. Sources of Information We will be telling the history of our community.
All history begins with the record of various events and actions.
Primary sources are artifacts that were produced at an exact moment in time and that reflect that moment of time. The Library of Congress has published a lesson on Primary Resources that might be focused on research that our students will carry out. In their research, history scholars use both primary sources and secondary sources. Primary sources are actual records that have survived from the past, such as letters, photographs, articles of clothing. Secondary sources are accounts of the past created by people writing about events sometime after they happened.