Look at the reference article. The Atlantic is considered a credible source, but this article is a native ad. What do you see on the page that might hint to you that it isn't credible?

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your answer is 1930's

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this is just around the time the great depression was starting and putting the us ecnomy into ecnomic failure causing the goverment to take a much larger rule to try and pieace it back together

i believe it would influence their own way of understanding things. it shall be a foundation where they can draw or start an argument.   historians are also  scientists that  have their tools of analysis and expertise to unlock a variety of difficulties such as relationships of man, origin, politics, economy, and culture. based on facts and understanding on these areas, they may shade light to extract ideas and develop options to validate a hypothesis or debunk it.

i think it is the first one hope this