Like the Slave Quarters assessment, this question requires students to consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of a document as historical evidence. Students with a sophisticated understanding of how to source a document will be able to explain how a news article from the time provides a useful contemporary account of Italian actions against the Ottoman Empire. They will also observe, however, that an international news report by a local American newspaper may contain biases and secondhand information which make it less useful as evidence of what really happened.
