Definition of "historical research" []

• Research performed using the historical method. (noun)

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• "The "Commentariorum in Danielem prophetam libri sexdecim" (Rome, 1587) are much less diffuse, and evidence the critical acumen, untiring energy, and historical research of the author."
• "Which made it a big problem that Gary and Hodge did some rather incomplete historical research and yanked them out of time shortly before the—shall we call them window-throwers, for lack of a better term?"
• "Twenty years later, sociologist Doug McAdam, while conducting historical research in an archive, obtained access to the applications of 720 volunteers and 239 other students who were selected but who then withdrew prior to departing for Mississippi in 1964."