History is colorful and complex, and this is one reason why historians enjoy investigating the past.

One of the essential skills for historians to investigate the past is the ability to question a primary source. Primary sources are the building blocks historians use to create history. A primary source is anything that is created by the historical person, made or existed during the historical period the historian is studying.

Some of the answers of the past are locked in primary sources. Historians access these answers by asking a variety of question to get a variety of answers to help them gain a full picture of the primary source and its answers.

In this collection, you will practice becoming a historian by questioning primary sources centered around food and African American chefs.