Comparer des méthodes

	Recherche d'archives historiques	Case Study
Domaine	Méthodes de terrain	Qualitatif
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	19th century (formalized ~1820s–1880s)	1984 (seminal codification)
Auteur d'origine	Historians and archivists; systematised through the professionalization of historical scholarship in the 19th century	Robert K. Yin (systematised in Case Study Research, 1984)
Type	Qualitative primary-source research	Qualitative research design
Source fondatrice	Hill, M. R. (1993). Archival Strategies and Techniques. Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0803951853	Yin, R.K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169
Alias	archival research, historical document analysis, archival history, primary source research	Vaka Çalışması (Case Study), case study design, case study methodology
Apparentées	6	5
Résumé	Historical archival research is a systematic method of investigating the past through the critical examination of primary source documents preserved in archives, libraries, and institutional collections. Researchers locate, access, authenticate, and interpret original records — such as government documents, correspondence, diaries, maps, and institutional files — to reconstruct events, trace processes, and build evidence-based historical arguments. It is foundational to historiography and widely applied across humanities and social science disciplines.	Case study research is a qualitative research design that investigates a specific phenomenon, individual, group, organisation, or event in depth within its real-world context. Systematised by Robert K. Yin in 1984, it supports single-case and multiple-case designs and draws on multiple data sources — interviews, observation, documents, and artefacts — to build a rich, contextualised account of a bounded unit.