Sources & Provenance
A document, artifact, or recording is only a primary source in relation to a specific historical or scientific question. Its evidentiary role depends on the question asked. The same pamphlet may be testimony for one inquiry, an edition for another, and an object of reception for a third.
Source Ledger
A bibliography names an intellectual work.
The source ledger records the exact object used and its role in the argument.
| Field | What to record |
|---|---|
Identity | Creator - title - date - edition or version - language |
Repository | Institution - collection - series - box - folder - folio or page |
Identifiers | Archive ID - DOI - ISBN - catalog ID - stable URI |
Use | Claim supported - locator - quotation or note - primary/secondary role |
Mediation | Transcription - translation - digitization - alteration - known omission |
Stewardship | Rights - permission - access limits - retrieval date - checksum when retained |
Method Dossier 001
This starter dossier identifies texts and archival guides that support the journal’s analytical method. It does not reproduce copyrighted editions or imply that free online access grants reuse permission.
APOLOGIE POUR L’HISTOIRE OU MÉTIER D’HISTORIEN (1941)
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi digital edition
A posthumously published, unfinished methodological work. Free consultation does not itself grant blanket reuse rights.
Persée · Annales d’histoire économique et sociale
The journal founders’ own case for crossing periods and disciplinary boundaries. A founding aspiration, not a present-day review standard.
The finding aid identifies manuscript and working-note holdings. Access and reproduction permission must be arranged separately.
American Historical Association
Guidance on evidence, retraceable citation, uncertainty, counterevidence, funding, and the relation of primary to secondary sources.
This article explores the academic disciplines of Public and Applied History and presents university programs and courses in Public and Applied History.
The focus is on the Applied History program of the Belfer Center of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and its Manifesto announced in 2016.
It is compared with the book History Manifesto written by Jo Guldi and David Armitage in 2014
Author:
Olga Manojlović Pintar
Institut for Recent History of Serbia
Non-Negotiable Distinctions
1. Primary does not mean sufficient. Evidence is scrutinized in relation to the question and the relevant secondary scholarship.
2. Digitized does not mean complete. Selection, description, scanning, search, and interface all mediate the record.
3. Accessible does not mean reusable. Copyright, contractual limits, privacy, cultural protocols, and repository rules remain distinct.
4. Silence is not absence. The missing record may reflect destruction, non-creation, catalog practice, power, or the limits of the search.