What are the modern methods in Historical research?

-Oral or written testimony. Found in public records or legal documents, minutes of meetings, newspapers, diaries, letters, artifacts such as posters, billboards, photographs, drawings, papers. Located in university archives or special collections, or local historical society collections or privately owned collections.

Why History is both a Science and an Art?

-Science and art complement each other in history as to various aspect of gathering historical facts and events; while art brings the broader approach that the historian investigates, examines, and correlates through years of historian experience the ability of solving mysteries as a true artistic approach.