historical method
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techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write histories in the form of accounts of the past
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A sculpted bust depicting Thucydides (c. 460 – c. 400 BC) dubbed the "father of scientific history" (a copy of a copy of 4th Century BCE Greek work)
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