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Historical Research
How are past events presented to us? What features and evidence influence what we think or believe? How are facts constructed?
Left to themselves, the facts do not speak … for all practical purposes there is no fact until someone affirms it. … Since history is … an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, its form and substance are inseparable.
Carl Becker, 1932, Everyman His Own Historian, American Historical Review