The photo shows a newspaper report from 1898 on the sinking of the USS Maine. Front page of newspaper The World with the headline Maine explosion caused by bomb or torpedo. How could a new point of view help historians understand this report? It could help them record new evidence related to the event. It could help them develop a better understanding of past ideas. It could help them preserve older evidence in a new way. It could help them disprove all the eyewitness accounts.
