Although the positivist approach has been a recurrent theme in the history of Western thought, the modern sense of the approach was developed by the philosopher and founding sociologist ................. in the early 19th century.

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• Leopold von Ranke was a .............. positivist historian and a founder of modern source-based history.
• The modern concept of oral history was developed in the 1940s by Allan Nevins and his associates at ..............University.
• ..............was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini'sFascist regime.
• The history of sexuality was treated in depth by the French philosopher ................ in his final work, the multi-volume Histoire de la sexualité.
• The philosopher of science ...............stimulated analytic philosophers' interest in historical knowledge in his essay, “The Function of General Laws in History” (1942).
• ....................is best known for his pioneering studies French Rural History and Feudal Society and his posthumously-published unfinished meditation on the writing of history, The Historian's Craft.
• ...................has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy'.
• In 1948, .................., a Columbia University historian, established the Columbia Oral History Research Office, with a mission of recording, transcribing, and preserving oral history interviews.
• ................. New Science (1725) offered an interpretation of history that turned on the idea of a universal human nature and a universal history .
• ...................... has been called the “father of history.”