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Richard T. Vann
Professor of History and Letters, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut; Senior Editor, History and Theory. Author of The Social Development of English Quakerism, 1655–1755 and others.
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historiography, the writing of history, especially the writing of history based on the critical examination of sources, the selection of particular details from the authentic materials in those sources, and the synthesis of those details into a narrative that stands the test of critical examination. The term historiography also refers to the theory and history of historical writing. Modern historians aim to reconstruct a record of human activities and to achieve a more profound understanding of them. This conception of their task is quite recent, dating from the development in the late 18th and early 19th centuries of “scientific” history ...(100 of 37804 words)

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