“A historian must combine the rigor of a scientist with the imagination of the artist.” To what extend, then, can the historian be confident about his or her conclusions?
History has always been a subject that is looked upon by many as a very controversial and biased one. In History people can have disagreements. One historian can believe that an event in the past happened in a certain way while another can think it happened differently. This is because history is a matter of interpretation as well as evidence, of judgement as well as knowledge. As a result of this historians must combine the rigor of a scientist with the imagination of an artist, to have the ability to produce a reasonable conclusion. Another historian however can challenge this conclusion. It is impossible to create a conclusion that every historian will agree with.
The problem with history, especially as a science, is that cause and effect can not always be clearly explained and understood. A science always......
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