AP US History

What Happened On Lexington Green
Time is something unrecoverable. Every passing moment of your life is captured and then lost somewhere in time and will never be replayed again in the physical world. We call this 'history'. History has existed for however long time has existed. The only reason we know about our history is if, after time has passed, the events of that moment were recorded somewhere, whether it be in an audio or video tape, a journal, or in a person's memory. The first hand records of an experience are called "primary sources". These are the most reliable sources for a person who is studying history to use, since they have not been strewn and battered around through opinions of individuals who's intentions are not to depict history accurately, but to depict history through the most favorable outcome for them self. However, primary sources might not tell the whole "truth" to an event, so one must analyze several primary sources of the same event to determine which elements of the story are fiction, and which elements of the story are consistent, and therefore, the "truth".
In section one of 'What happened on Lexington Green', one can read several first hand accounts of the event in Lexington on April 19th, 1775. …