This is a review article of Tor Egil Førland’s book Values, Objectivity and Explanation in Historiography, New York: Routledge, 2017. The book challenges the appropriateness of the association of anti-objectivism in historiography with left-wing politics and by defending objectivist perspectives on historical research takes a strong stance against cultural relativism and theories of situated truth. Førland also analyzes the implications of dilemmas about ontological and methodological individualism for historical research and proposes an interesting application of the views of Margaret Gilbert to the problem of the explanation of contradictory beliefs of historical figures. The book has been published in a very appropriate moment, and it will help open questions and dilemmas that have received insufficient attention in the past due to the domination of postmodernist perspectives.