Paul Connerton, “How Societies Remember” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 13. as quoted on Thomas R. Kearns (August 2002). History, Memory, and the Law. University of Michigan Press.as quoted in p.3 Footnote 7
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Historians . . . proceed inferentially. They investigate evidence much as lawyers cross-question witnesses in a court of law, extracting from that evidence information which it does not explicitly contain.
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About Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.
About Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.
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