INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY: The Historian’s Craft. Epistemological Foundations and Methodology of Historical Research

What does it mean to research and write history in the twenty-first century?

In a context marked by the acceleration of information, the expansion of public memory and the massive digitization of archives, the historian's profession faces new methodological and ethical challenges. Introduction to History. The historian's profession offers a comprehensive guide to understanding and practicing historical research with rigor, clarity, and responsibility. Far from offering mechanical recipes, this work proposes a structured understanding of the historical method as a critical discipline. Researching history is not accumulating data or repeating inherited stories, but asking pertinent questions, subjecting sources to rigorous examination, and constructing verifiable interpretations. Throughout the journey, the book dialogues with the great referents of the historiographical tradition—Bloch, Carr, Collingwood, Braudel, Ricoeur, Koselleck—and places them in conversation with contemporary debates on narrativity, truth, memory, power and digital mediations.

This manual articulates epistemological foundations and practical tools to accompany the reader in all stages of the research process, including:

• The formulation of the problem and the construction of the state of the question.

• The delimitation of the documentary corpus and the organization of the work.

• Academic writing and publication.

Aimed at students, researchers in training and professionals in the area, this book is a solid tool for organizing historical projects with theoretical coherence, methodological soundness and ethical awareness. In a world saturated with stories about the past, it reaffirms the need for a history written under evidentiary scrutiny.