VON RANKE, after turning ninety, keeps cheerfully on with his Universal History ; a score or more of learned men associate themselves in writing the history of a single American town. Which is the ...

Finding a convincing explanation of a complex issue is no easy task. The decision about what qualifies as the "best" solution is inevitably subject to biases and approximations. Coupling statistics ...

Although a core insight of historical institutionalism (HI) is that history affects actors’ beliefs, values and preferences, it is difficult to test these propositions directly. This chapter argues ...

PROF. J. KENNER, of the Manchester College of Technology, recently opened a discussion on the “Historical Method in Teaching Science” at a meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.

One of the momentous developments in criticism in the past two decades has been the revival of the historical method as a way of studying literature, the arts, and the world of ideas. Scholars who ...