1. which can historians decide if a source is reliable?
determining how many people agree with the source
determining the amount of information within a book
determining the author’s point of view on the subject
determining how many people know about the source

2. pilar is doing research on the uss maine for a paper. what would be the best choice as a source for information?
a history textbook with a chapter on life in the late 1800s
a historical novel about the sinking of the uss maine
a design book with a chapter devoted to shipbuilding
a nonfiction book written by an expert on the uss maine

3. the photo shows a newspaper report from 1898 on the sinking of the uss maine.
how could a new point of view historians understand this report?

it could them record new evidence related to the event.
it could them develop a better understanding of past ideas.
it could them preserve older evidence in a new way.
it could them disprove all the eyewitness accounts.

4. which statement best describes a historian?
a historian primarily finds out the truth about events from the past.
a historian tries to explain present-day events based on the past.
a historian works to discover why a contemporary event occurred.
a historian mostly corrects mistakes of investigators from long ago.

5. soon after the uss maine sank, yellow journalists
completed a great deal of research.
were the ones who found the truth.
exaggerated the truth about the event.
questioned witnesses and survivors.

1 "Determining the author's point of view on the subject" can help historians to decide whether the source is reliable or not. It shows the background of author, place and time in which he live.It clearly shows whether the author is influenced by any particular ideology and interests or not and whether the author is biased or not. Historians like Mortan define point of view " as attempting to see through the eyes of the people who lived in times and circumstances far removed from our present day lives".

2  A notification book written by an expert on the USS Maine is best choice as a source of information for Pillar for doing his research as it can provide him authentic and detailed information regarding the event. He can also use historical novel but with care and after cross-checking from other sources.

3  It could help them develop a better understanding of past idea.

4  The primarily finds out the truth about the events from the past. They use various kinds of sources like literary and archaeological and cross-check them in order to find the truth about the event. Besides they interpret the events and make the facts to speak which ultimately help us to know the reality of the past.

5.   After USS Maine sank, yellow journalists exaggerated the truth about the event. They began to distort facts and spread warmongering which ended in American-Spanish war. They published fake articles about a plot to sink the ship and Remember the Maine became a battle cry which increased the tensions between the two. The two main yellow journalists Joseph Pultizar and Wiliam Randolph were in the forefront in this propaganda.

a. the astrolabe could determine the correct latitudinal location of the ship