Historical Method and Historiography

• The process of critically examining and analyzing the records and survivals of the past.

  Historical method
• The imaginative reconstruction of the past from the data derived by that process.

  Historiography
• Both of which are frequently grouped together simply as

  Historical method
• is also an important element of historical method

  historical analysis
• In historical analysis, Historians:

  • Investigate
  • Collect
  • Examine
  • Extract