This dynamic reveals a spontaneity which many historians belonging to the functionalist school, following Hilberg's elaborate description, relied upon.

In order to judge the reception and popularity of these foreign films, historians have mainly relied on anecdotal evidence.

Can future historians rely on this memoir?

Unfortunately the local historian cannot rely on such proximation of tincture and style being always a sign of seignorial attachment.

"To build strong historical records, the historian should rely on necessary rules for the truth comparison"

Few scholars still accept these texts as reliable sources; historians nowadays rely more on archaeology and numismatics, which have helped people understand the period.

Instead, historians rely on records written several centuries after the facts, and even those records may be based on oral tradition.

In original scholarly writing, historians rely on primary sources, read in the context of the scholarly interpretations.

At that time historians relied uncritically on the works of Richard Hakluyt published around 1600.

Until fairly recently, Hawaiian historians relied primarily on recorded oral history and comparative linguistics and ethnology.