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Primary sources make shit up too tho
But if you read a primary source, that’s one persom who had the opportunity to make stuff up. With a secondary source, even if the primary it’s based on is legit, there’s some other guy who wasn’t there and may either be lying to you or misinterpreting the primary source his report is based on. Each new level of isolation adds another opportunity to stack both lies and mistakes onto the data.
It’s not that you can’t go wrong with primary sources. It’s that you can go a lot wronger without them.
Counterargument, secondary sources are often a good filter for bogus primary sources. This is the primary reason Wikipedia does not allow primary source references.
That’s very different. Wikipedia doesn’t allow people to edit their own pages. They don’t have rules against linking to interviews with persons involved in an event, for example.
The main problem with primary sources is that they are often involved in the event itself - or at least greatly affected by it - which makes them the most biased.
My AP history teacher liked to make up stuff. But like, he’d say he made it up right after telling the made-up thing.
Fun fact: The first president to have a middle name was John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.
I feel like you’re lying, but I don’t know enough about middle names to dispute it.
Although, Washington didn’t have a mustache. That means SOMEONE was the first president to have a mustache.
And there’s never been a president with purple hair. Harris, I’m lookin’ at you. Be bold!
That means SOMEONE was the first president to have a mustache.
Oddly enough that was ALSO John Quincy Adams…
Ok. Not really. He was the first to have sideburns.
Lincoln was the first to have a beard.
Grant was the first to have a mustache.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_with_facial_hair
Of course Wikipedia has the list of US presidents with facial hair. Because why not
What’s the presidential tattoo situation?
That would be Lyndon B. Johnson, who is said to have had a hell of a tramp stamp.
Is that what he was always showing people?
No. It was his Johnson.
He named it “Jumbo”
I believe both of the Roosevelts had the same tattoo, of their family crest
as an expert in middle names (been working with them my whole life) i can confirm it is true
As someone who works with middle names, maybe you can’t tell but this middle name is in a lot of distress.
OK what was it then? I’ve heard him being called John Quincy S. Adams at a local museum. Do you know what the S stands for?
John Quincy Skibidi Adams
Seymour
I thought it was SkiiinnEEEEERRR!
Smith, named after George Smith Washington
John S. Quincy Adams
While looking up what his middle name was, I learned that the tradition of middle names did not become widespread in the US until the 1830s. Interesting.
What I want to know is what’s up with two-name first names like Mary Jo or Betty Lou. Did that happen before or after the invention of middle names?
So nice we named her twice
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No fun allowed.
Maybe the museum exhibit was about his nephew?
George Steptoe Washington
Sounds like what George Washington would’ve been called if he’d been a great dancer.
Or a terrible one!
