What does it mean to think historically when the experience of thinking is constituted by the act of reading, writing and relating to what the archives show? Developing an epistemology of history based on theoretical and historiographical approaches, led by Jacques Derrida's philosophical reflections on writing, contingency and historicity, to locate possible answers, is not, in this book, a work of synthesis but from a location that thematically expands what the French philosopher articulated, bringing it into the realm of what the historian creates when he makes history.