Activity 22.3:

What Kind of Historical Source?

Match the historical source listed in Column B with the appropriate example in Column A.

Column A: Examples

Column B: Kind of Historical Source

1. A 1994 high school yearbook 2. A table found in an eighteenth-century colonial home 3. A baseball cap worn by Babe Ruth in the 1930s 4. A copy of the Ph.D. dissertation of one of the authors of this text 5. A letter written by the wife of Henry Kissinger 6. A cartoon from a copy of a 1940s issue of Time magazine 7. The diary of a nineteenth-century schoolmarm in rural Kentucky 8. A copy of the year 2000 census report 9. A school budget from a large urban high school district for the year 1984 10. A recorded interview with folksinger Joan Baez

a. Document b. numerical record c. oral statement d. relic