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The 102 pages that link to Historical method, each with the reason it gives.

• ClassicsNarrower topic: Classical claims depend on weighing literary, documentary, archaeological, and scientific evidence.

• Contemporary historyNarrower topic: It helps distinguish corroborated findings from claims based on incomplete recent records.

• David IrvingNarrower topic: The court evaluated whether Irving handled sources according to sound historical practice.

• EthnohistoryNarrower topic: Ethnohistory adapts historical methods while drawing on additional disciplines.

• Henry AdamsNarrower topic: Adams’s documentary research helped establish a model for rigorous American political history.

• The MuqaddimahRelated: Ibn Khaldun argues that reports must be tested against social and political realities, not merely transmitted.

• Alessandro ManzoniRelated: Manzoni’s source-based account of the Milan plague frames the novel’s invented story.

• David McCulloughRelated: It provides a basis for assessing the research behind McCullough’s accessible prose.

• LucretiaRelated: The gap between Lucretia’s legendary setting and surviving accounts raises questions of historical verification.

• Parallel LivesCompared with: Plutarch’s moral selection differs from modern methods that prioritize systematic evidence and chronology.

• Purandara DasaRelated: Applying it separates documented evidence about his life from later devotional narratives.

• R. G. CollingwoodRelated: His philosophy treats historical inquiry as a disciplined process of questioning evidence.

• SudasRelated: Sudas’s story requires weighing poetic testimony against later tradition.

• The Daughter of TimeNarrower topic: Grant applies source criticism to challenge a familiar account of the princes’ fate.

• Ancient historyNarrower topic: It explains how historians assess reliability, context, and gaps in ancient records.

• CuneddaRelated: It helps distinguish the chronicle’s claims from independently established facts.

• Human scienceRelated: It tests claims about human history against the origin and reliability of evidence.

• Nanjing Massacre denialCompared with: Source criticism offers standards for testing claims that denial often applies selectively.

• Richard J. EvansRelated: His courtroom testimony made explicit how source criticism applies to historical claims.

• Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.Narrower topic: His interpretive books and teaching shaped how students approached historical evidence.

• Christ myth theoryNarrower topic: Both mythicist and historicist arguments depend on how evidence is evaluated.

• History of atheismNarrower topic: Sparse or hostile sources require careful distinctions between documented beliefs and later labels.

• Human historyRelated: Source criticism helps distinguish reliable evidence from later claims.

• Interpretation (hermeneutics)Related: Historical interpretation tests claims against sources whose meanings depend on their circumstances.

• Jared SparksNarrower topic: Sparks’s work illustrates how source selection and editorial judgment shape historical claims.

• KapilaNarrower topic: It separates evidence for Kapila from later traditional claims about his life.

• Nicolas FlamelRelated: It distinguishes contemporary evidence about Flamel from later claims about his alchemy.

• Numa Denis Fustel de CoulangesNarrower topic: His arguments show how written sources and close comparison can support broad claims about social change.

• Recorded historyRelated: Source criticism helps distinguish reliable testimony from error, convention, and propaganda.

• Robert FogelNarrower topic: Debates over Fogel’s work raised questions about how quantitative models should be tested against historical sources.

• Ron ChernowRelated: Chernow’s narrative depends on interpreting conflicting evidence about his subjects.

• The Education of Henry AdamsRelated: Adams’s self-portrait is also an inquiry into how historical knowledge can be made.

• Anatoly FomenkoCompared with: Historians assess sources through provenance and context, rather than accepting statistical resemblance as proof of duplicated eras.

• Auxiliary sciences of historyNarrower topic: Auxiliary disciplines supply specialized procedures within broader historical inquiry.

• Charles McLean AndrewsRelated: Andrews’s archival research illustrates professional methods applied to colonial records.

• Edward ChanningRelated: Channing’s scholarship drew on documentary research and professional historical standards.

• Elizabeth BáthoryNarrower topic: Source criticism separates contemporary testimony from later embellishment in Báthory's story.

• Evidence and documentation for the HolocaustNarrower topic: Holocaust research applies historical methods to records produced by victims, perpetrators, and witnesses.

• François Victor Alphonse AulardNarrower topic: Aulard’s archival work exemplified professional methods applied to revolutionary history.

• GeisteswissenschaftRelated: Historical method shows how interpretive claims can remain answerable to evidence.

• Historicity of the BibleRelated: It distinguishes evidence-based historical conclusions from theological or literary interpretation.

• History (written account)Related: It explains how a narrative is built from sources rather than simply copied from them.

• James Anthony FroudeNarrower topic: Froude’s use of narrative and documentary evidence belongs to wider debates about historical writing.

• John Dalberg-ActonRelated: Acton sought rigorous, morally serious history grounded in broad evidence.

• Mochizuki ChiyomeNarrower topic: It helps assess whether accounts of Chiyome rest on contemporary evidence.

• Morya GosaviRelated: It helps distinguish verifiable evidence from later devotional tradition.

• Parameswara of MalaccaNarrower topic: It helps distinguish documented events from details preserved mainly in later chronicles.

• Peter ForceRelated: Force’s selection and transcription choices raise enduring questions about editorial practice.

• Robert PaxtonNarrower topic: Paxton’s conclusions depended on testing retrospective claims against administrative records.

• Samuel Rawson GardinerRelated: Gardiner exemplified a disciplined, source-centered method in political history.