Historians distinguish between primary and secondary sources.However, primary and secondary sources, while providing information about the past,pose problems as well to historians. What problema do primary and secondary sources pose?
Primary sources are receptive to bias and exaggeration. Additionally, availability to primary sources in some cases are very expensive to obtain and or is time consuming. Moreover secondary sources' reliability of the information could be questioned and at times misleading, or the information provided may be outdated.
