# History 101: how we know the past

_Course · Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council · https://iranians.global/learn/courses/history-101-how-we-know-the-past/_

How historians work with sources, and why accounts of the same past differ.

## Record

- **Code**: IDCDC-HIS-13
- **School**: History
- **Levels**: F
- **Hours**: 6 · estimated hours
- **Format**: Self-paced online, in plain language, with maps, figures, short quizzes and a discussion.
- **State**: outlined
- **Run**: built
- **Modules**: Sources · Asking questions of a source · Many accounts · Memory and history
- **Outcomes**: Tell a primary source from a secondary source. · Date and place a source, and ask who made it and why. · Compare two accounts of one event fairly.

## Provenance

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## See also

- [The Academy](https://iranians.global/learn/)