synthesis: Your synthesis may indeed contain an original element, but it should be presented as your interpretation built upon several established strands of scholarship, rather than as a proposition already stated by a single historian. That distinction is important for the elite journal because it allows you to claim originality while showing that each building block of your argument is grounded in recognized scholarship.
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Structure versus intention Structures are indeed created by human beings. The distinction is analytical: Individual level: Why did Lincoln act? Structural level: How did the legal system interact with industrial capitalism? The second question does not deny human agency. It changes the unit of analysis.