There's a difference between interrogating source material subjectively and then being able to place your opinion within a canon of historical discourse and debate.
May I suggest that anthropology and its related research fields, including cultural geography, have been strengthened by a long historical discourse about moral relativism?
The Romantic historical discourse reinterpreted history as a march towards the unified state.
They fear that the use of professional historical discourse will turn the Holocaust into a subject like any other, robbing it of its historic uniqueness.
There is significant historical discourse in India on the notion, relevance, and the existence and non-existence of God.
He saw black inclusion in white historical discourses as helping to bridge racial divides.
However exciting his paper, his thesis seemed in danger of crumbling if it were reworked into a conventional historical discourse.
Smithson's narrative supports an alternative view of historical discourse and the art object's placement or production outside of the museum institution.
Foucault proposes a "historical and political discourse".
The power of language, more specifically of certain rhetorical tropes, in historical discourse was explored by Hayden White.