Question

How do historians define the term historical context

Answer 1

A historical context is a text that provides us with information from the past that can't be given to us by the actual person or place . a cultural social political or economic setting person or event  

Answer 2

Historical context is the political, social, cultural, and economic setting for a particular idea or event. In order to better understand something in history, we must look at its context--those things which surround it in time and place and which give it its meaning. In this way, we can gain, among other things, a sense of how unique or ordinary an event or idea seems to be in comparison to other events and ideas