The+Role+of+Facts

=The Role of Facts=

To what extent are good historical interpretations based on the "facts" (traces of the period being studied) and to what extent are they based on "the historian" (his/her thinking and creativity, based on the entirety of the period in which he/she has lived)?

Here are the views of several eminent historians and philosophers of history on this point:


 * E.H. Carr
 * [[file:The historian and facts-EHC.pdf]]
 * Charles Beard
 * [[file:History as an act of faith-Beard.pdf]]
 * Henri Pirenne
 * [[file:What historians are trying to do-Pirenne.pdf]]
 * R.G. Collingwood
 * [[file:Historical Imagination-Collingwood.pdf]]
 * Carl Becker
 * [[file:What are historical facts-Becker.pdf]]
 * Walsh
 * [[file:Can history be objective-Walsh.pdf]]

Work on this by Mr. Ergueta:
 * [|This chart comparing the evolving interpretations of World War I across the 20th century] may be useful.