... articles from a particular timeperiod■Physical, geographical, or topographicalmaps■Official documents—such as the census orother collections of statistics■Paintings, prints, drawings, and ... history, aswell as information about how people in thepast perceived the physical world. Official doc- uments serve as legal statements of historicalevents, people, and places. Any visual sources—paintings, ... them. You are notreading a famous historian’s opinion of a situa-tion; you are analyzing raw writing, visuals, anddata and coming to your own conclusions.Sometimes, you will really feel like...