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In Sam Wineburg’s article “Why Historical Thinking is not about History” Wineburg tackled the idea that historical thinking is not about history. He claims that different generations got their information in different ways and have gone about trusting them in different ways. With the older generations he said that when they had to get research done they went the library and grabbed a book knowing that the information that was in it was reliable because it went through so many rounds of criticism from publishers before it was able to be available to the public. Young people these days find all their sources online; with this he questions how the youth determines if a source is reliable or not. In the study that Eszter Hargittai performed that the conclusion was many students believe that the first few links that come up when searching a question on Google were the most reliable sources to use. With these sorts of ideas, it is scary to think that these “young people” are coming up with ideas about historical events without questioning the sources they read. That is why Wineburg wrote Reading Like a Historian, so students and teachers can learn how to question the things they are reading on the web to make sure it can be trusted and reliable. REBEKAHBENNINGER1 describes how American Disasters was created and the different categories that articles fall under. After reading Wienburg’s article it is scary to think that research based books like this will come from sources that young people consider reliable because the internet said it was.