Historical source as an object of nature and culture
The article studies the phenomenon of the constant "presence" of the ideas and principles characteristic of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the latest scientific and research practices. In particular, it is an issue of the fundamental for historical and scientific knowledge ideas about historical sources, cultural information resources of historical studies. The historiographical significance of the continuity in theoretical approaches to historical material of the science is recognized. However, the development of global evolutionism ideas, the understanding natural laws historicity, as well as the successes of global and environmental history, make it possible to significantly expand traditional notions of sources of historical information.