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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Clues, myths, and the historical method / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by John and Anne C. Tedeschi.

Postmodernism for historians / Callum G. Brown.

What is cultural history? / Peter Burke.

The historian's toolbox : a student's guide to the theory and craft of history / Robert C. Williams.

Historiography in the twentieth century : from scientific objectivity to the postmodern challenge / Georg G. Iggers.

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Clues, myths, and the historical method / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by John and Anne C. Tedeschi.

Postmodernism for historians / Callum G. Brown.

What is cultural history? / Peter Burke.

The historian's toolbox : a student's guide to the theory and craft of history / Robert C. Williams.

Historiography in the twentieth century : from scientific objectivity to the postmodern challenge / Georg G. Iggers.