To provide a comprehensive overview of historical events

To identify the causes and consequences of historical events

To evaluate the significance of historical events

To reconstruct the past as accurately as possible

Marxist interpretation

Feminist interpretation

Postmodernist interpretation

Objectivist interpretation

It is too focused on political and military events

It ignores the role of social and economic factors

It is too reliant on written sources

It is too subjective

Evidence

Interpretation

Argument

Narrative

To support the historian's interpretation

To provide a comprehensive overview of historical events

To identify the causes and consequences of historical events

To reconstruct the past as accurately as possible

Written documents

Archaeological artifacts

Oral histories

Statistical data

Dealing with incomplete and biased evidence

Identifying the causes and consequences of historical events

Evaluating the significance of historical events

Reconstructing the past as accurately as possible

Source criticism

Contextualization

Comparison

Generalization

To understand the historical event in its proper context

To identify the causes and consequences of the historical event

To evaluate the significance of the historical event

To reconstruct the past as accurately as possible

Political interpretation

Economic interpretation

Social interpretation

Cultural interpretation

To provide a comprehensive overview of historical events

To identify the causes and consequences of historical events

To evaluate the significance of historical events

To reconstruct the past as accurately as possible

Causal explanation

Teleological explanation

Functional explanation

Structural explanation

Causal explanations focus on the causes of historical events, while teleological explanations focus on the consequences of historical events

Causal explanations focus on the short-term causes of historical events, while teleological explanations focus on the long-term causes of historical events

Causal explanations focus on the specific causes of historical events, while teleological explanations focus on the general causes of historical events

Causal explanations focus on the internal causes of historical events, while teleological explanations focus on the external causes of historical events

Chronological narrative

Thematic narrative

Comparative narrative

Counterfactual narrative

To provide a comprehensive overview of historical events

To identify the causes and consequences of historical events

To evaluate the significance of historical events

To reconstruct the past as accurately as possible