# Sources and voices

Every account is written by someone, for someone, at some moment. Historians ask who wrote it, who is missing, and what survived by chance. A past told only from the records of the powerful has gaps that other sources, including oral ones, can help fill.

Connects to:
- [History](https://mapideas.org/i/history)
- [Memory and the past](https://mapideas.org/i/ti_memory)
- [Archaeoastronomy](https://mapideas.org/i/as_archaeo)
- [Writing](https://mapideas.org/i/hi_writing)
- [Dating the past](https://mapideas.org/i/hi_dating)
- [How do we know what happened?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_hist_know)
- [Whose voices are missing?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_hist_missing)
- [What was lost, and how to know?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_hist_lost)
- [Can history include its writer?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_g_history)
- [Memory](https://mapideas.org/i/mi_memory)
- [Printing](https://mapideas.org/i/te_print)
- [The internet](https://mapideas.org/i/te_net)
- [Colonial history](https://mapideas.org/i/cu_colonial)
- [Heritage and return](https://mapideas.org/i/cu_heritage)
- [How does a people hold knowledge?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_held)
- [Who keeps a people’s objects?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_objects)
- [Whose voice is missing?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_voices)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Historiography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography)
- [Wikipedia: Primary source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_source)

Source: https://mapideas.org/i/hi_sources · open on the map: https://mapideas.org/#hi_sources