“A historian must combine the rigor of a scientist with the imagination of the artist.” To what extend, then, can the historian be confident about his or her conclusions?

“A historian must combine the rigor of a scientist with the imagination of the artist.” To what extend, then, can the historian be confident about his or her conclusions? History has always been a subject that is looked upon by many as a very controversial and biased one. In History people can have disagreements. One historian can believe that an event in the past happened in a certain way while another can think it happened …

…scientific manner, but at the same time he has to use his artist’s imagination to fill in the missing pieces to end up with a conclusion that gives the most probable way an event occurred. Due to this, a historian can not be absolutely confident about the way an event occurred, but he can be confident that he came up with a reasonable and for his purposes accurate enough conclusion of an events occurrence.