# Evidence Versus Interpretation

Distinguish between historical evidence and historical interpretation — evidence is what survived, interpretation is the argument a historian builds from it, and the same evidence can support different arguments

Builds on: Understanding People in Their Own Time (soft, https://ai.page/c/understanding-people-in-their-own-time/en.md), Learning from Mistakes (soft, https://ai.page/c/learning-from-mistakes/en.md), Questioning Historical Sources (hard, https://ai.page/c/questioning-historical-sources/en.md), Vocabulary: historical thinking (hard, https://ai.page/c/vocabulary-historical-thinking/en.md), Checking Sources Against Each Other (hard, https://ai.page/c/checking-sources-against-each-other/en.md), Evidence-Based Writing (soft, https://ai.page/c/evidence-based-writing/en.md)

Concept id: evidence-versus-interpretation. Subject: history. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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