The Nature of historical Research: Debate between modernist and Postmodernist 1. Past events& historical field: Can they be fully recovered? 2. Historical evidence: Objective fact, theoretically mediated facts/interpretation, or socially constructed reality 3. The role of the historical researcher: Objective reconstructionist, theoretically guided constructionist interpreter of text within text within contextes 4. Research output of historical study: Authentic correspondence of the past, culturally significant representations of the past from selective perspectives, or retrieval of suppressed representations of the past12 The Nature of Historical Research: Debate between Modernist and Postmodernist 1. Past events & historical field: Can they be fully recovered? 2. Historical evidence: Objective fact, theoretically mediated facts/ interpretation, or socially constructed reality 3. The role of the historical researcher: Objective reconstructionist, theoretically guided constructionist, interpreter of text within text within contextes 4. Research output of historical study: Authentic correspondence of the past, culturally significant representations of the past from selective perspectives, or retrieval of suppressed representations of the past