What is the first step a historian usually takes when trying to learn about the past?

Drawing a conclusion
Conducting research
Forming a hypothesis
Asking questions

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your answer would be (a)

35 is your answer because i looked it up

no options provided, here,but the answer to this question is often: a historian cites a japanese newspaper article published a year after the end of world war ii in order to draw conclusions about the effect of the war on the japanese economy.

clearly from the answer, the historian alludes to historical sources,and records to aid in analyzing and drawing conclusion on the effect of the war on the economy of japan.