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Mr. Lexington says that doing historical research is like being a detective and a lawyer after a crime has happened. It sounds kind of silly, but he’s got a point.
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Mr. Lexington says historians start by gathering primary source documents and work to figure out what they mean. Then they use those sources as evidence to make a claim about why a topic is important in history.