HATEVER HAPPENED to historical evidence? Perhaps it is naive to ask this question, but in
this essay I would like to offer aw real-life demonstration of where the new historicism, or …

Postmodern deconstructions of the discipline of history are striking; theirs is a succes de
scandale. By contrast, C. Behan McCullagh's defence of The Truth of History (London …

In history, as in anthropology, choice of context or setting is crucial in establishing (or
insinuating) the'meaning'which readers are invited to glean from an individual episode or …

Every historian knows the special excitement that is derived form perusing the documents,
the primary sources that are the basic, if incomplete and imperfect, evidence from which he …

" WVTHAT shall we save?" I asked this question of a colleague and received a forthright
answer:" When in doubt, save. How can we know what minor bit of experimentation may turn …

Let me explain my choice of theme and title,'The historian and his evidence'.(1) The
historian. This word has its taproot in the Greek verb historeo, which means' I inquire'or …

The work of the historian is done principally through the interpretation of primary sources. A
primary source may be a government document, a letter or diary, a pamphlet, a newspaper …

Many of the intellectual procedures used by historians can be viewed in terms of the
dichotomy between documentary evidence and facts or events which are external to the …

Recent postmodern critiques of historical writing, such as those by Keith Jenkins, Alun
Munslow, and Beverley Southgate, have challenged belief in the truth of historical …

At the present time philosophers of history, in their treatment of historians' claims as to the
occurrence of events in the past, may be divided into two schools:" realist empiricists" and" …