History
How We Know
Where a claim about the past comes from, and what it rests on
Sources · Silences · Dates · 3 chapters · 9 min read
Where a claim about the past comes from, and what it rests on.
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Evidence
- 01Primary, Secondary and the GapOn why a liar's diary is a primary source and a careful historian is not.
- 02What Survives, and Why It Isn't RandomOn the fact that the past did not choose what it left behind.
- 03How a Date Gets FixedOn how a number gets attached to a thing, and what the number is actually about.