- "Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline."
Studying historical characters and the role they played in different eras.
Autobiography: A book written by the person who is the subject of the book, detailing their own life experiences.
Memoir: A written account of a person's personal experiences or significant events in their life, often including reflections on their past.
Biography: A written account of another person's life, typically written by someone else.
Historical Figures: People who have played significant roles in history, often influencing events or social movements.
Political Leaders: Individuals who have held positions of power in government and implemented policies or legislation that shaped the course of history.
Inventors and Innovators: Individuals who have created or improved upon an existing invention or introduced new technologies that have had a major impact on society.
Explorers: Individuals who have set out on expeditions to explore new territories or regions of the world.
Scientists and Researchers: Individuals who have conducted significant research and made important discoveries in various fields, including medicine, physics, chemistry, and biology.
Artists and Writers: Individuals who have made significant contributions in the arts, including literature, music, visual arts, and performing arts.
Social Reformers: Individuals who have advocated for and led social movements to bring about change in society, including civil rights activists, suffragettes, and abolitionists.
Autobiography: A self-written account of one's life.
Memoir: Narrative of personal experience, focusing on a particular theme, period or event.
Biography: An account of a person’s life, written by someone else.
Personal Narrative: A story focused on a particular event in the life of the person telling it.
Diaries and Journals: Records of daily events kept by the person themselves.
Oral history: A narrative of memories and experiences passed down through generations, typically told through interviews.
Letters: Correspondence between individuals that provides insight into their lives and experiences.
Fictionalized biography: A fictional account of a real-life person’s experiences.
Hagiography: A religious biography of a saint or holy person.
Historical fiction: A story set in the past that uses real historical figures as characters.
Collective biography: A biography of a group of people who share some characteristic.
Culturally-specific biography: A biography of a person from a particular cultural or ethnic background.
Political biography: A biography focused on the person’s political experiences and beliefs.
Occupational biography: A biography focused on the person’s career or profession.
Sports biography: A biography focused on the person’s athletic achievements and experiences.
- "The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic by using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches."
- "Scholars discuss historiography by topic—such as the historiography of the United Kingdom, that of WWII, the pre-Columbian Americas, early Islam, and China—and different approaches and genres, such as political history and social history."
- "Beginning in the nineteenth century, with the development of academic history, there developed a body of historiographic literature."
- "The extent to which historians are influenced by their own groups and loyalties—such as to their nation state—remains a debated question."
- "The Histories of Herodotus, the founder of historiography."
- "The Roman statesman Cato the Elder produced the first Roman historiography, the Origines, in the 2nd century BCE."
- "Sima Tan and Sima Qian in the Han Empire of China established Chinese historiography, compiling the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian)."
- "Medieval historiography included the works of chronicles in medieval Europe, Islamic histories by Muslim historians, and the Korean and Japanese historical writings based on the existing Chinese model."
- "Figures such as Voltaire, David Hume, and Edward Gibbon, who among others set the foundations for the modern discipline."
- "There has been a shift away from traditional diplomatic, economic, and political history toward newer approaches, especially social and cultural studies."
- "From 1975 to 1995 the proportion of professors of history in American universities identifying with social history increased from 31 to 41 percent."
- "The proportion of political historians decreased from 40 to 30 percent."
- "Of 5,723 faculty in the departments of history at British universities, 1,644 (29 percent) identified themselves with social history and 1,425 (25 percent) identified themselves with political history."
- "Since the 1980s there has been a special interest in the memories and commemoration of past events—the histories as remembered and presented for popular celebration."