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"Historical argument" as a book category describes works of history that are explicitly thesis-driven and argumentative: the author advances a particular interpretation or explanation about past events, people, or processes and marshals primary and secondary evidence to persuade readers of that interpretation. Such books combine narrative and analysis, situating facts in context, weighing sources, addressing competing views, and often engaging with historiography to show how their claim revises or challenges existing understandings. They range from scholarly monographs with extensive footnotes to narrative nonfiction aimed at general readers, and can draw on archival research, quantitative data, cultural analysis, or interdisciplinary methods. The defining feature is not merely the recounting of events but the construction of a reasoned, evidence-based case about what happened and why it matters.

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