{"id":852,"date":"2013-02-06T11:38:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T16:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=852"},"modified":"2015-01-14T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:40:03","slug":"false-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2013\/02\/06\/false-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"False Accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Josephine Tey&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Daughter of Time<\/em>, I now realize how important primary sources are to a historian, more general history itself. \u00a0The book starts out with Alan Grant, a policeman, staring at a ceiling, in bed, in a hospital. \u00a0There is only so much the mind can create with just a blank ceiling. \u00a0After months of refusing to read books, his friend Marta brings him a stack of portraits of prominent figure in past centuries. \u00a0He goes through several of these portraits until he comes across the portrait of Richard III. \u00a0For some reason the facial expressions and other aspects of this portrait cannot leave Grant&#8217;s thoughts. \u00a0He eagerly decides to learn more about Richard III and the infamous accusations of the murderer of his two nephews.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the book, Tey establishes the importance of primary sources. \u00a0Although school textbooks, well known authors such as Sir Thomas More, say one thing, the facts may not be factual. \u00a0It puzzles me how such thing could be possible. \u00a0Only declaring history a few weeks back, I still have a lot to learn. \u00a0I was one who depended on text books and online websites (not Wikipedia as taught in grade school), not utilizing the primary sources that are available at public libraries, churches, government buildings, etc.<\/p>\n<p>This book and the understanding of primary sources has definitely overlapped with my work in the archives. \u00a0It has given me a greater reason to believe in the importance for researching primary sources. \u00a0Although it may be difficult to piece together because there are so many articles and separate pieces, it is important for a true historian to be able to piece the information together. \u00a0One must not always depend on the information readily available and already pieced together because, like Tey depicted in\u00a0<em>The Daughter or Time<\/em>, not all common knowledge is reliable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Josephine Tey&#8217;s\u00a0Daughter of Time, I now realize how important primary sources are to a historian, more general history itself. \u00a0The book starts out with Alan Grant, a policeman, staring at a ceiling, in bed, in a hospital. \u00a0There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2013\/02\/06\/false-accusations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110563],"tags":[71104,803,71100,39567],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hist204-archive","tag-daughter-of-time","tag-history","tag-josephine-tey","tag-primary-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}