Modeled on seminars in philology and Greek literature that Ranke had attended as a student, they offered a "laboratory" in historical method in which problems were posed, documents sought out and produced, and mutual criticism offered.
Certainly documents may be printed and circulated to libraries, but on the Internet these are only available if sought out and assessed by all readers individually.
To put it simply, humans have been seeking out and documenting ruins since Renaissance-era painters began memorializing the remains of antiquity.
Starting in 1945, he sought out, acquired, and documented works by untutored prisoners, children, people hospitalized for mental illnesses, and eccentric loners, mostly French, Swiss, or German, to make a point: "civilized" art was false to human nature and redeemable only by recourse to primal authenticities.
So she sought out the photographers documenting young black men who use style to rebel against stereotypes, ushering in a new image of black masculinity far more varied and complex than mainstream audiences are used to.
For the document reviews, we sought out copies of all contemporary documents on malaria vector management policy in each country, often with the help of our key informants.
In the end, her tireless and thorough research — sifting through 19th-century newspapers, pursuing diaries and memoirs from local historical societies, seeking out court documents, tracking diplomatic correspondence — has left her with a nearly impossible problem.
Greenewald was inspired to seek out these documents when he heard of UFO files that showed the U.S. government's interest in a UFO incident in Iran that took place in 1976.
