Critiquing how useful a source is for a specific historical inquiry

A historical source that is useful for answering one question might be far less useful for answering another. Critiquing a source's usefulness for a specific inquiry means judging it against who made it, when, where, for whom, and why, in light of exactly what you are trying to find out.

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