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the photo shows a newspaper report from 1898 on the sinking of the uss maine.
how could a new point of view historians understand this report?

a) it could them record new evidence related to the event.
b) it could them develop a better understanding of past ideas.
c) it could them preserve older evidence in a new way.
d) it could them disprove all the eyewitness accounts.

The correct answer is B) It could help them develop a better understanding of past ideas.

A new point of view help historians to understand this report in that it could help them develop a better understanding of past ideas.

As new research is done about with historical topic, new or different information can be found that serve historians to compare the official version of the story with the new evidence. This, of course, can change history because new evidence can explain interrogations of the past. That is why it is so important for historians to keep asking questions and develop different angles. For this to happen, they have to be open to hear or see different versions or even opposing versions of what official history has recorded.