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The 22 pages that link to Historical source, each with the reason it gives.

• Historical methodNarrower topic: Historical investigation begins with sources that can be examined and compared.

• Public historyNarrower topic: Public interpretation begins with sources and must explain how evidence supports its claims.

• Historical accuracyNarrower topic: Accounts gain accuracy when their claims can be traced to relevant evidence.

• MicrohistoryNarrower topic: Microhistorical arguments depend on interpreting unusually rich or revealing traces.

• Historical narrativeNarrower topic: Sources supply the evidence a narrative selects and interprets.

• Marc BlochNarrower topic: Bloch argued that sources must be questioned rather than treated as transparent records.

• Political historyNarrower topic: Political histories depend on evidence such as laws, correspondence, speeches, and records.

• World HistoryNarrower topic: World history depends on evaluating evidence produced by societies with unequal records.

• DiaryNarrower topic: Diaries can provide dated evidence of everyday experience, though they reflect one writer’s perspective.

• ChronicleNarrower topic: A chronicle is one kind of evidence historians assess as a source.

• HistoryBroader topic: Sources provide the evidence historians examine to construct accounts of past events.

• Historical biographyNarrower topic: Letters, records, and objects provide evidence from which a life can be reconstructed.

• Holocaust survivor testimonyNarrower topic: Survivor accounts are sources whose value depends on context and corroboration.

• James BoswellRelated: Boswell’s diaries offer first-person testimony, while requiring checks against other evidence.

• Samuel PepysNarrower topic: Pepys’s diary supplies firsthand evidence, while its personal perspective also requires careful interpretation.

• Bi ShengRelated: The account of Bi Sheng depends chiefly on a passage written by Shen Kuo.

• Madame de SévignéNarrower topic: Her letters provide firsthand evidence, while also reflecting a particular social viewpoint.

• History of mentalitiesNarrower topic: Mentality historians depend on sources that reveal assumptions without stating them directly.

• ProtohistoryRelated: Protohistory combines material evidence with texts whose authors may be distant or partial.

• Watkin TenchNarrower topic: Tench’s books are sources for reconstructing early colonial events and daily life.

• Auxiliary sciences of historyNarrower topic: These disciplines developed to identify, interpret, and assess different kinds of sources.

• History (past events)Related: Sources preserve traces from which claims about past events can be assessed.