In this article, NHD Board Member Dr. Renee Romano discusses how students and teachers can handle outdated, problematic, or offensive language that they will encounter in primary sources from the past. The article demonstrates what historians do when they encounter this language in primary sources and how they shift the language when they write about and analyze these sources.

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