okay this is just a quick bit of advice for history students sometimes this happens to all of us we realize we don't know what we're talking about sometimes we know Mark an essay people put in the essay students will put in the essay some people think or it is it said that okay who thinks this thing who is saying this thing who is making the argument if you get to the point where you think I don't know and by the way I get to that point from time to time too go find out here's where
we do our research we look in books we look in journal articles we look online we ask people who know more about the subject than we do many many eminent historians are always happy to take an email from a student this is how we learn this is how we learn the field of debate which is what we're really trying to understand not just facts and figures but the field of debate who's saying what about what