Historians seek to interpret historic sites, artifacts, written records, and verbal histories without adding their own what?

ideas of the historic background
theory they hope to prove
biases of interpretation
narrative of the course of events

The correct answer is - Biases of interpretation.

In general, the historians are trying to avoid adding their biases of interpretation of the history. They try to focus on using as information only the sites, the artifacts, what has been written, the verbal history among the peoples, in order to give the most objective interpretation of the historical events.

Unfortunately, there's also lot of historians that do tend to use their biases of interpretation of the history, often resulting in nationalistic ideals, tensions between nations and people, and even war if they are convincing enough.

in 1803 the louisiana purchase took place, doubling the size of the country. by 1840 almost 7 million americans had migrated westward in hopes of securing land and being prosperous. the belief that settlers were destined to expand to the west is often referred to as manifest destiny.

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