Historians learn about the prior simply because they learn the facts. yet what precisely is “evidence,” how do historians recognize what it means—and how will we belief them to get it correct? Historian David Henige tackles such questions of historic reliability head-on in his skeptical, unsparing, and acerbically witty Historical facts and Argument. “Systematic doubt” is his watchword, and he practices what he preaches via a number of insightful exams of old controversies—for instance, over the courting of artifacts and the textual research of translated files. Skepticism, Henige contends, forces us to acknowledge the bounds of our wisdom, yet can be a good strength that stimulates new scholarship to counter it.
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