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What is a historiographic essay?
"Historiography is the study of how history is written. No single scholar’s approach is “correct” or unimpeachable, because no matter how much he or she tries to treat the subject at hand in a fair and unbiased manner, the final product is invariably shaped by political agendas and pressures, contemporary trends in academia, limitations of resources, and the inherent subjectivity of critical analysis....
A historiographical essay is one which summarizes and analyzes historians’ changing arguments and interpretations of a historical topic."
(From https://www.agnesscott.edu/writingandspeaking/handouts/f12-historiographical-essays_rev.-2018.pdf)
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