A secondary source is an account written later by someone studying it. Cite a secondary source.
It has the advantage of hindsight and the disadvantage of everything that came between. A good secondary source tells you where its evidence came from so you can check it.
1nounsecondary sourceAn account written later by someone studying it.
“Every secondary source repeated the same mistake from 1904.”
secondary source is a source.
Practised in History & Eras