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en-wikipedia-org-9267		Historical method - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3274	351	54	Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past. Secondary sources, primary sources and material evidence such as that derived from archaeology may all be drawn on, and the historian's skill lies in identifying these sources, evaluating their relative authority, and combining their testimony appropriately in order to construct an accurate and reliable picture of past events and environments. The study of historical method and of different ways of writing history is known as historiography. Subsequent descriptions of historical method, outlined below, have attempted to overcome the credulity built into the first step formulated by the nineteenth century historiographers by stating principles not merely by which different reports can be harmonized but instead by which a statement found in a source may be considered to be unreliable or reliable as it stands on its own. From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9267.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9267.txt