- "Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline."
The role of historians in shaping public discourse and policy, including debates about historical memory, and the ethical responsibilities of historians.
Historical methodology: This refers to the various techniques and processes used by historians to study and interpret historical data.
Historical schools of thought: These are different approaches historians use to study, interpret, and write about history.
Objectivity and subjectivity in history: This concerns the extent to which historians can be objective in their analysis of historical events and whether this is possible at all.
Bias and perspective in history: This relates to the influence of personal biases and perspectives on the interpretation of historical events.
The role of ideology in history: This examines how ideologies such as nationalism, socialism, and conservatism have influenced historical narratives.
The use of sources in history: This involves studying how historians evaluate and analyze diverse sources of historical data, including primary and secondary sources.
Historical context: This refers to the social, political, economic, and cultural milieu within which historical events occur.
Historical interpretation: This concerns how historians construct meaning from historical data and how historical interpretation changes over time.
Narrative history: This involves the creation of a coherent and compelling narrative that integrates disparate historical events into a larger story.
Historical memory: This involves the ways in which historical events are remembered, commemorated, and forgotten in different societies and cultures.
Political History: This is the dominant type of historiography that focuses on the political activities and events of a specific period or region.
Social and Cultural History: This type of historiography is concerned with the study of social systems, cultural practices, and the everyday lives of people.
Economic History: This type of historiography examines the economic activities and systems of a period or region.
Intellectual History: This type of historiography emphasizes the study of ideas, intellectual movements, and the development of knowledge.
Environmental History: This type of historiography explores the relationship between humans and their natural environment over time.
Military History: This type of historiography examines the wars, strategies, and tactics used in battles of a specific period or region.
Gender History: This type of historiography is concerned with studying the role of gender and its impact on society throughout history.
Diplomatic History: This type of historiography focuses on the relations between different states, diplomacy, and international affairs during a specific period or region.
Marxist History: This type of historiography is based on Marxist theories and analyzes history from the perspective of the working class and their struggle against capitalism.
Postcolonial History: This type of historiography focuses on the experiences of colonized people and their resistance to colonialism and imperialism.
- "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."