Identifying Bias Explain how each of these sources could be considered biased (one-sided).
LSource 1
‘Messi is the best in the world without any doubt and for me in the history of football’. Former Barcelona player and manager Luis Enrique on Barcelona’s Lionel Messi.
LSource 2 ‘This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!’ In 2016 Donald Trump won the US presidential election. Trump posted this tweet in 2017 when the US Justice Department said it would lead an enquiry into Russian involvement in the 2016 election.
LSource 3 This is a page from a German children’s book called Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom) published in 1938. The text under the picture reads, ‘Just as it is often very difficult to tell the poisonous from the edible mushrooms, it is often very difficult to recognise Jews as thieves and criminals …’
Where do Historians Get their Sources?
1. Historians get their information from a variety of places. Where is your nearest … (a) Museum? (b) Library? (c) Archive?
