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[[File:Jacob de Wit - Allegorie op het schrijven van de geschiedenis 1754.jpg|thumb|The ''Allegory On the Writing of History'' shows Truth (top) watching the historian write history, while advised by [[Athena#Pallas Athena|Wisdom]] ([[Jacob de Wit]], 1754)]]

'''Historiography''' is the study of the methods used by [[historian]]s in developing [[history]] as an academic discipline. By extension, the term "[[:wikt:historiography|historiography]]" is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic by using particular sources, techniques of research, and theoretical approaches to the interpretation of documentary sources. Scholars discuss historiography by topic—such as the [[historiography of the United Kingdom]], of [[historiography of World War II|WWII]], of the [[Pre-Columbian era|pre-Columbian Americas]], of early [[historiography of early Islam|Islam]], and of [[Chinese historiography|China]]—and different approaches to the work and the genres of history, such as [[political history]] and [[social history]]. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the development of academic history produced a great corpus of historiographic literature. The extent to which historians are influenced by their own groups and loyalties—such as to their [[Nationalist historiography|nation state]]—remains a debated question.<ref>{{cite book |author=Ferro, Marc |title=The Use and Abuse of History: Or How the Past Is Taught to Children |date=2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0415285926}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Candelaria, John Lee |title=Readings in Philippine History |author2=Alporha, Veronica |year=2018 |publisher=Rex Book Store, Incorporated |isbn=978-9712386657}}</ref>

In Europe, the academic discipline of historiography was established in the 5th century BC with the ''[[Histories (Herodotus)|Histories]]'', by [[Herodotus]], who thus established [[Greek historiography]]. In the 2nd century BC, the [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] statesman [[Cato the Elder]] produced the ''[[Origines]]'', which is the first [[Roman historiography]]. In Asia, the father and son intellectuals [[Sima Tan]] and [[Sima Qian]] established [[Chinese historiography]] with the book ''[[Shiji]]'' (''Records of the Grand Historian''), in the time of the [[Han Empire]] in [[Ancient China]]. During the [[Middle Ages]], [[medieval historiography]] included the works of [[chronicle]]s in [[Medieval literature|medieval Europe]], the [[Ethiopian historiography|Ethiopian Empire]] in the [[African historiography|Horn of Africa]], [[Islamic literature|Islamic histories]] by [[Muslim historians]], and the [[Korean historiography|Korean]] and [[Japanese historiography|Japanese]] historical writings based on the existing Chinese model. During the 18th-century [[Age of Enlightenment]], historiography in the Western world was shaped and developed by figures such as [[Voltaire]], [[David Hume]], and [[Edward Gibbon]], who among others set the foundations for the modern discipline. In the 19th century, historical studies became professionalized at universities and research centers along with a belief that history was like a science.<ref name="Iggers-2005">Georg G. Iggers, ''Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge'', 1-4. {{ISBN|978-0819567666}}</ref> In the 20th century, historians incorporated social science dimensions like politics, economy, and culture in their historiography.<ref name="Iggers-2005" />

The research interests of historians change over time, and 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, while the proportion of political historians decreased from 40 to 30 percent.<ref name="Kennedy-1997">Diplomatic dropped from 5 to 3 percent, economic history dropped from 7 to 5 percent, and cultural history grew from 14 to 16 percent. Based on the number of full-time professors in U.S. history departments. [[Stephen H. Haber]], David M. Kennedy, and Stephen D. Krasner, "Brothers under the Skin: Diplomatic History and International Relations", ''International Security'', Vol. 22, No. 1 (Summer, 1997), pp. 34–43 at p. 42 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2539326 online at JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531140355/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2539326 |date=2019-05-31 }}</ref> In 2007, of 5,723 faculty members 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.<ref>See [http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/Teachers/a27.html "Teachers of History in the Universities of the UK 2007&nbsp;– listed by research interest"] {{webarchive|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060530073940/http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/Teachers/a27.html |date= 2006-05-30 }}</ref> 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.<ref>David Glassberg, "Public history and the study of memory." ''The Public Historian'' 18.2 (1996): 7–23 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3377910 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213101636/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3377910 |date=2020-02-13 }}.</ref>

==Terminology==
In the [[early modern period]], the term ''{{linktext|historiography}}'' meant "the writing of history", and ''historiographer'' meant "[[historian]]". In that sense certain [[Official history|official historians]] were given the title "[[Historiographer Royal]]" in [[Rikshistoriograf|Sweden]] (from 1618), [[Historiographer Royal (England)|England]] (from 1660), and [[Historiographer Royal (Scotland)|Scotland]] (from 1681). The Scottish post is still in existence.

Historiography was more recently defined as "the study of the way history has been and is written—the history of historical writing", which means that, "When you study 'historiography' you do not study the events of the past directly, but the changing interpretations of those events in the works of individual historians."<ref>{{cite book |first1=Conal |last1=Furay |first2= Michael J. |last2=Salevouris |title=The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide |publisher=[[Harlan Davidson (publisher)|Harlan Davidson]]<!-- This was a family-owned higher educational publishing house that was started in 1976 by someone with the surname Davidson and was sold to John Wiley & Sons in 2012, according to an Article in Publishers Weekly. -->  |year=1988 |page=223 |isbn=0-88295-982-4}}</ref>

==History==
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===Antiquity===
{{further|Ancient history|Prehistory|Protohistory|Written history}}
Understanding the past appears to be a universal human need, and the "telling of history" has emerged independently in civilizations around the world. 
What constitutes history is a philosophical question (see [[philosophy of history]]). The earliest [[Chronology|chronologies]] date back to [[ancient Egypt]] and [[Sumerian literature|Sumerian]]/[[Akkadian literature|Akkadian]] [[Mesopotamia]], in the form of [[chronicle]]s and [[annal]]s.<ref name="Vann-2023"/> However, most historical writers in these early civilizations were not known by name, and their works usually did not contain [[narrative]] structures or detailed analysis. By contrast, the term "historiography" is taken to refer to written history recorded in a narrative format for the purpose of informing future generations about events. In this limited sense, "[[ancient history]]" begins with the [[written history]] of early historiography in [[Classical Antiquity]], established in 5th century BC [[Classical Greece]].

====Europe====
=====Greece=====
{{main|Greek historiography}}
{{further|Ancient Greek literature}}
[[File:Thucydides Manuscript.jpg|thumb|upright|Reproduction of part of a tenth-century copy of [[Thucydides]]'s ''[[History of the Peloponnesian War]]'']]

The earliest known systematic historical thought and methodologies emerged in [[ancient Greece]] and the [[Greek colonisation|wider Greek world]], a development which would be an important influence on the writing of history elsewhere around [[History of the Mediterranean region|the Mediterranean]] region. The [[Logographer (history)|tradition of logography]] in [[Archaic Greece]] preceded the full narrative form of historiography, in which logographers such as [[Hecataeus of Miletus]] provided [[prose]] compilations about places [[Ancient Greek geography|in geography]] and peoples in an early form of [[cultural anthropology]], as well as speeches used in [[Ancient Greek law|courts of law]].<ref name="Vann-2023">Vann, Richard T. "Historiography". ''[[Encyclopedia Britannica]]'', 31 Oct. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/topic/historiography. Accessed 31 January 2024.</ref> The earliest known fully narrative critical historical works were ''[[Histories (Herodotus)|The Histories]]'', composed by [[Herodotus]] of [[Halicarnassus]] (484–425&nbsp;BC) who became known as the "father of history".<ref>John L. Myres, (1953), ''Herodotus, Father of History'' {{ISBN|978-1362949077}}</ref> Herodotus attempted to distinguish between more and less reliable accounts, and personally conducted research by travelling extensively, giving written accounts of various Mediterranean cultures.<ref name="Vann-2023"/> Although Herodotus' overall emphasis lay on the actions and characters of men, he also attributed an important role to divinity in the determination of historical events.

[[File:Thucydides-bust-cutout ROM.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|left|Bust of [[Thucydides]], Hellenistic copy of a 4th-century BC work]]

The generation following Herodotus witnessed a spate of local histories of the individual [[city-state]]s (''[[polis|poleis]]''), written by the first of the [[Local history|local historians]] who employed the written archives of city and sanctuary. [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]] characterized these historians as the forerunners of Thucydides,<ref>Dionysius, ''On Thucydides'', 5.</ref> and these local histories continued to be written into [[Late Antiquity]], as long as the city-states survived. Two early figures stand out: [[Hippias of Elis]], who produced the lists of winners in the [[Ancient Olympic Games|Olympic Games]] that provided the basic chronological framework as long as the pagan classical tradition lasted, and [[Hellanicus of Lesbos]], who compiled more than two dozen histories from civic records, all of them now lost.

[[Thucydides]] largely eliminated divine causality in his account of the war between Athens and Sparta, establishing a rationalistic element which set a precedent for subsequent Western historical writings.<ref name="Vann-2023"/> He was also the first to distinguish between cause and immediate origins of an event, while his successor [[Xenophon]] ({{c.|lk=no|431}}&nbsp;– 355&nbsp;BC) introduced autobiographical elements and biographical character studies in his ''[[Anabasis (Xenophon)|Anabasis]]''.<ref name="Vann-2023"/>

The proverbial [[Philippic]] attacks of the [[Athens|Athenian]] orator [[Demosthenes]] (384–322&nbsp;BC) on [[Philip&nbsp;II of Macedon]] marked the height of ancient political agitation. The now lost history of [[Alexander the Great|Alexander's]] campaigns by the [[diadoch]] [[Ptolemy&nbsp;I]] (367–283&nbsp;BC) may represent the first historical work composed by a ruler. [[Polybius]] ({{c.|lk=no|203}}&nbsp;– 120&nbsp;BC) wrote on the rise of the [[Roman Republic]] to world prominence, and attempted to harmonize the Greek and Roman points of view.<ref name="Vann-2023"/> [[Diodorus Siculus]] composed a [[universal history (genre)|universal history]], the ''[[Bibliotheca historica]]'', that sought to explain various known civilizations from their origins up until his own day in the 1st century BC.<ref name="Vann-2023"/>

The [[Chaldea]]n priest [[Berossus]] ({{floruit|3rd century}}&nbsp;BC) composed a Greek-language ''History of [[Babylonia]]'' for the [[Seleucid]] king [[Antiochus&nbsp;I]], combining [[Hellenistic]] methods of historiography and [[Mesopotamia]]n accounts to form a unique composite. Reports exist of other near-eastern histories, such as that of the [[Phoenicia]]n historian [[Sanchuniathon]]; but he is considered semi-legendary and writings attributed to him are fragmentary, known only through the later historians [[Philo of Byblos]] and [[Eusebius]], who asserted that he wrote before even the [[Trojan War]]. The native Egyptian priest and historian [[Manetho]] composed a [[history of Egypt]] in Greek for the [[Ptolemaic Kingdom|Ptolemaic royal court]] during the 3rd century BC.

=====Rome=====
{{Main|Roman historiography}}
{{further|Latin literature}}
[[File:Ritratto maschile detto il vecchio di otricoli, 50 ac ca. (busto moderno), da otricoli (visconti), MT533, 05.jpg|thumb|upright|The Roman [[Patrician Torlonia|bust]] traditionally identified as [[Cato the Elder]]]]

[[Ancient Romans|The Romans]] adopted the Greek tradition, writing at first in Greek, but eventually chronicling their history in a freshly non-Greek language. Early [[Roman literature|Roman works]] were still written in Greek, such as the annals of [[Quintus Fabius Pictor]]. However, the ''[[Origines]]'', composed by the Roman statesman [[Cato the Elder]] (234–149&nbsp;BC), was written in [[Latin]], in a conscious effort to counteract Greek cultural influence. It marked the beginning of [[Roman historiography|Latin historical writings]]. Hailed for its lucid style, [[Julius Caesar]]'s (103–44&nbsp;BC) ''[[Commentarii de Bello Gallico|de Bello Gallico]]'' exemplifies autobiographical war coverage. The politician and orator [[Cicero]] (106–43&nbsp;BC) introduced rhetorical elements in his political writings.

[[Strabo]] (63&nbsp;BC&nbsp;– {{c.|lk=no|24}}&nbsp;AD) was an important exponent of the [[Greco-Roman]] tradition of combining geography with history, presenting a descriptive history of peoples and places known to his era. The Roman historian [[Sallust]] (86–35&nbsp;BC) sought to analyze and document what he viewed as the decline of the [[Constitution of the Roman Republic|Republican Roman state]] and its virtues, highlighted in his respective narrative accounts of the [[Catilinarian conspiracy]] and the [[Jugurthine War]].<ref name="Vann-2023"/> [[Livy]] (59&nbsp;BC&nbsp;– 17&nbsp;AD) records the rise of [[Roman Empire|Rome]] from [[city-state]] to [[empire]].<ref name="Vann-2023"/> His speculation about what would have happened if [[Alexander the Great]] had marched against Rome represents the first known instance of [[alternate history]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/Livy09.html |title=Livy's History of Rome: Book 9 |publisher=Mcadams.posc.mu.edu |access-date=2010-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070228233052/http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/Livy09.html |archive-date=2007-02-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Biography, although popular throughout antiquity, was introduced as a branch of history by the works of [[Plutarch]] ({{c.|lk=no|45}}&nbsp;– 125&nbsp;AD) and [[Suetonius]] ({{c.|lk=no|69}}&nbsp;– after 130&nbsp;AD) who described the deeds and characters of ancient personalities, stressing their human side.<ref name="Vann-2023"/> [[Tacitus]] ({{c.|lk=no|56|117}}&nbsp;AD) denounces Roman immorality by praising [[Germanic peoples|German]] virtues, elaborating on the [[Literary topos|topos]] of the [[Noble savage]]. Tacitus' focus on personal character can also be viewed as pioneering work in [[psychohistory]].<ref name="Vann-2023"/> Although rooted in Greek historiography, in some ways Roman historiography shared traits with [[Chinese literature|Chinese historiography]], lacking [[Historical sociology|speculative theories]] and instead relying on annalistic forms, [[Ancestor worship|revering ancestors]], and imparting [[moral]] lessons for their audiences, laying the groundwork for [[Medieval historiography|medieval Christian historiography]].<ref name="Vann-2023"/>

====Biblical====
[[Biblical historiography]] is the study of the writing of history in the context of the [[Hebrew Bible]], and covers from the 12th century BC to the mid-4th century BC with a revival during the [[Hasmonean period]] in the second century BC. It encompasses two main trends: a quasi-secular approach focusing on political history, and a [[kerygma]]tic approach emphasizing divine action and moral lessons.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rofé |first=Alexander |date=2016 |title=Properties of Biblical Historiography and Historical Thought |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43894622?seq=2 |journal=Vetus Testamentum |volume=66 |issue=3 |pages=433–455 |issn=0042-4935}}</ref>

====East Asia====
=====China=====
{{Main|Chinese historiography|Twenty-Four Histories}}
{{further|Chinese literature}}
[[File:Shiji.jpg|upright|thumb|First page of the ''[[Shiji]]'']]

The [[Han dynasty]] [[eunuch]] [[Sima Qian]] (145–86&nbsp;BC) was the first in China to lay the groundwork for [[Chinese historiography|professional historical writing]]. His work superseded the older style of the ''[[Spring and Autumn Annals]]'', compiled in the 5th century BC, the ''[[Bamboo Annals]]'', the ''[[Classic of History]]'', and other court and dynastic [[annals]] that recorded history in a [[chronological]] form that abstained from [[analysis]] and focused on moralistic teaching.<ref name="Vann-2023"/> In 281&nbsp;AD the tomb of [[King Xiang of Wei]] ({{died in|296&nbsp;BC}}) was opened, inside of which was found a historical text called the ''Bamboo Annals'', after the writing material. It is similar in style to the ''Spring and Autumn Annals'' and covers events from the mythical [[Yellow Emperor]] to 299&nbsp;BC. Opinions on the authenticity of the text has varied throughout the centuries, and it was rediscovered too late to gain the same status as the ''Spring and Autumn Annals''.<ref>Wilkinson, Endymion (2018). ''Chinese History: A New Manual''. Self-published. p. 681 {{ISBN|978-0998888309}}</ref>

Sima's ''[[Shiji]]'' (''[[Records of the Grand Historian]]''), initiated by his father the [[Chinese astronomy|court astronomer]] [[Sima Tan]] (165–110&nbsp;BC), pioneered the "Annals-biography" format, which would become the standard for prestige history writing in China. In this genre a history opens with a chronological outline of court affairs, and then continues with detailed biographies of prominent people who lived during the period in question.<ref>Thomas R. Martin, ''Herodotus and Sima Qian: The First Great Historians of Greece and China: A Brief History with Documents'' (2009). {{ISBN|978-0312416492}}</ref> The scope of his work extended as far back as the 16th century&nbsp;BC with the founding of the [[Shang dynasty]]. It included many treatises on specific subjects and individual biographies of prominent people. He also explored the lives and deeds of commoners, both contemporary and those of previous eras.

Whereas Sima's had been a universal history from the beginning of time down to the time of writing, his successor [[Ban Gu]] wrote an annals-biography history limiting its coverage to only the [[Western Han dynasty]], the ''[[Book of Han]]'' (96&nbsp;AD). This established the notion of using dynastic boundaries as start- and end-points, and most later Chinese histories would focus on a single dynasty or group of dynasties.

The Records of the Grand Historian and Book of Han were eventually joined by the ''[[Book of the Later Han]]'' (AD 488) (replacing the earlier, and now only partially extant, Han Records from the Eastern Pavilion) and the ''[[Records of the Three Kingdoms]]'' (AD 297) to form the "Four Histories". These became mandatory reading for the [[Imperial Examinations]] and have therefore exerted an influence on Chinese culture comparable to the [[Thirteen Classics|Confucian Classics]]. More annals-biography histories were written in subsequent dynasties, eventually bringing the number to between twenty-four and twenty-six, but none ever reached the popularity and impact of the first four.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wilkerson, Endymion |title=Chinese History: A New Manual |year=2017 |isbn=978-0998888309 |edition=5th |pages=692–695|publisher=Endymion Wilkinson, c/o Harvard University Asia Center }}</ref>

Traditional Chinese historiography describes history in terms of [[dynastic cycle]]s. In this view, each new dynasty is founded by a morally righteous founder. Over time, the dynasty becomes morally corrupt and dissolute. Eventually, the dynasty becomes so weak as to allow its replacement by a new dynasty.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jörn Rüsen|title=Time and History: The Variety of Cultures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SvGyzu-nLaUC&pg=PA54|year=2007|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-84545-349-7|pages=54–55}}</ref>

===Middle Ages to Renaissance===

====Christendom====
{{See also|Historiography in the Middle Ages|Medieval ecclesiastic historiography|Ethiopian historiography}}
[[File:Beda Petersburgiensis f3v.jpg|right|upright|thumb|A page of [[Bede]]'s ''[[Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]'']]

[[Medieval ecclesiastic historiography|Christian historical writing]] arguably begins with the narrative sections of the New Testament, particularly [[Luke-Acts]], which is the [[primary source]] for the [[Apostolic Age]], though its [[Historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles|historical reliability is disputed]]. The first tentative beginnings of a specifically Christian historiography can be seen in [[Clement of Alexandria]] in the second century.<ref>{{emc1|Josef Lössl|Early Christian historical writing|553-563}}</ref>
The [[Early centers of Christianity|growth of Christianity]] and its enhanced status in the Roman Empire after [[Constantine I and Christianity|Constantine&nbsp;I]] (see [[State church of the Roman Empire]]) led to the development of a distinct Christian historiography, influenced by both [[Christian theology]] and the nature of the [[Christian Bible]], encompassing new areas of study and views of history. The central role of the Bible in Christianity is reflected in the preference of Christian historians for written sources, compared to the classical historians' preference for oral sources and is also reflected in the inclusion of politically unimportant people. Christian historians also focused on development of religion and society. This can be seen in the extensive inclusion of written sources in the ''[[Church History (Eusebius)|Ecclesiastical History]]'' of [[Eusebius of Caesarea]] around 324 and in the subjects it covers.<ref name="Concordia-2007">[http://www.cuw.edu/Academics/programs/history/historiography.html ''Historiography''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018032745/http://www.cuw.edu/Academics/programs/history/historiography.html |date=2007-10-18 }}, Concordia University Wisconsin, retrieved on 2 November 2007</ref> Christian theology considered time as linear, progressing according to divine plan. As God's plan encompassed everyone, Christian histories in this period had a universal approach. For example, Christian writers often included summaries of important historical events prior to the period covered by the work.<ref>Warren, John (1998). ''The past and its presenters: an introduction to issues in historiography'', Hodder & Stoughton, {{ISBN|0-340-67934-4}}, pp. 67–68.</ref>

Writing history was popular among Christian monks and clergy in the [[Middle Ages]]. They wrote about the history of Jesus Christ, that of the Church and that of their patrons, the dynastic history of the local rulers. In the [[early medieval|Early Middle Ages]] historical writing often took the form of [[annals]] or [[chronicle]]s recording events year by year, but this style tended to hamper the analysis of events and causes.<ref>Warren, John (1998). ''The past and its presenters: an introduction to issues in historiography'', Hodder & Stoughton, {{ISBN|0-340-67934-4}}, pp. 78–79.</ref> An example of this type of writing is the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'', which was the work of several different writers: it was started during the reign of [[Alfred the Great]] in the late 9th&nbsp;century, but one copy was still being updated in 1154. Some writers in the period did construct a more [[narrative]] form of history. These included [[Gregory of Tours]] and more successfully [[Bede]], who wrote both [[secular]] and [[ecclesiastical]] history and who is known for writing the ''[[Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]''.<ref name="Concordia-2007"/>

Outside of Europe and West Asia, Christian historiography also existed in Africa. For instance, [[Augustine of Hippo]], the [[Berbers|Berber]] theologian and bishop of [[Hippo Regius]] in [[Numidia (Roman province)|Numidia]] ([[Roman North Africa]]), wrote a multiple volume autobiography called ''[[Confessions (Augustine)|Confessions]]'' between 397 and 400 AD.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chadwick|first1=Henry|title=St. Augustine, Confessions| orig-year =1992|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn= 978-0-19953782-2|page=xxix| year =2008}}</ref> While earlier pagan rulers of the [[Kingdom of Aksum]] produced autobiographical style [[Epigraphy|epigraphic]] texts in locations spanning [[Ethiopia]], [[Eritrea]], and [[Sudan]] and in either Greek or the native [[Ge'ez script]],<ref>{{cite book|last=De Lorenzi|first=James|title=Guardians of the Tradition: Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea|location=Rochester|publisher=[[University of Rochester Press]]|year=2015|pages=14–15|isbn=978-1-58046-519-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c1WECgAAQBAJ}}</ref> the 4th century AD [[Ezana Stone]] commemorating [[Ezana of Axum]]'s conquest of the [[Kingdom of Kush]] in [[Nubia]] also emphasized his [[conversion to Christianity]] (the first indigenous African head of state to do so).<ref>{{cite book|last=Robin|first=Christian Julien|title=The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity|chapter=Arabia and Ethiopia|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0-19-533693-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KEYSDAAAQBAJ|editor-last=Johnson|editor-first=Scott Fitzgerald|page=276|translator=Arietta Papaconstantinou}}</ref> Aksumite manuscripts from the 5th to 7th centuries AD chronicling the [[diocese]]s and [[episcopal sees]] of the [[Coptic Orthodox Church]] demonstrate not only an adherence to Christian chronology but also influences from the non-Christian Kingdom of Kush, the [[Ptolemaic dynasty]] of [[Hellenistic Egypt]], and the [[Yemenite Jews]] of the [[Himyarite Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite book|last=De Lorenzi|first=James|title=Guardians of the Tradition: Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea|location=Rochester|publisher=[[University of Rochester Press]]|year=2015|pages=15–16|isbn=978-1-58046-519-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c1WECgAAQBAJ}}</ref> The tradition of [[Ethiopian historiography]] evolved into a matured form during the [[Solomonic dynasty]]. Though works such as the 13th century ''[[Kebra Nagast]]'' blended [[Christian mythology]] with historical events in its narrative, the first proper biographical chronicle on an [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] was made for [[Amda Seyon I]] (r. 1314–1344), depicted as a Christian savior of his nation in conflicts with the Islamic [[Ifat Sultanate]].<ref>{{cite book|last=De Lorenzi|first=James|title=Guardians of the Tradition: Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea|location=Rochester|publisher=[[University of Rochester Press]]|year=2015|pages=17–18|isbn=978-1-58046-519-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c1WECgAAQBAJ}}</ref> The 16th century monk [[Bahrey]] was the first in Ethiopia to produce a historical [[ethnography]], focusing on the migrating [[Oromo people]] who came into military conflict with the Ethiopian Empire.<ref>{{cite book|last=De Lorenzi|first=James|title=Guardians of the Tradition: Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea|location=Rochester|publisher=[[University of Rochester Press]]|year=2015|page=20|isbn=978-1-58046-519-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c1WECgAAQBAJ}}</ref> While royal biographies existed for individual Ethiopian emperors authored by court historians who were also clerical scholars within the [[Ethiopian Orthodox Church]], the reigns of [[Iyasu II]] (r. 1730–1755) and [[Iyoas I]] (r. 1755–1769) were the first to be included in larger general dynastic histories.<ref>{{cite book|last=De Lorenzi|first=James|title=Guardians of the Tradition: Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea|location=Rochester|publisher=[[University of Rochester Press]]|year=2015|pages=20–22|isbn=978-1-58046-519-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c1WECgAAQBAJ}}</ref>

During the [[Renaissance]], history was written about states or nations. The study of history changed during the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] and [[Romanticism]]. [[Voltaire]] described the history of certain ages that he considered important, rather than describing events in chronological order. History became an independent discipline. It was not called ''philosophia historiae'' anymore, but merely history (''historia'').

[[File:Ibn khaldun writting-ms.jpg|thumb|upright|Autograph writing of [[Ibn Khaldun]], pioneer of historiography, [[cultural history]], and the [[philosophy of history]]]]

====Islamic world====
{{See also|Historiography of early Islam|Muqaddimah|Muslim historians}}

[[Muslim]] historical writings first began to develop in the 7th century, with the reconstruction of the Prophet [[Muhammad]]'s life in the centuries following his death. With numerous conflicting narratives regarding Muhammad and his [[Sahaba|companions]] from various sources, it was necessary to verify which sources were more reliable. In order to evaluate these sources, various methodologies were developed, such as the "[[Ilm ar-Rijal|science of biography]]", "[[science of hadith]]" and "[[Isnad]]" (chain of transmission). These methodologies were later applied to other historical figures in the [[Islamic Golden Age|Islamic civilization]]. Famous historians in this tradition include [[Urwah ibn Zubayr|Urwah]] (d.&nbsp;712), [[Wahb ibn Munabbih]] (d.&nbsp;728), [[Ibn Ishaq]] (d.&nbsp;761), [[al-Waqidi]] (745–822), [[Ibn Hisham]] (d.&nbsp;834), [[Muhammad al-Bukhari]] (810–870) and [[Ibn Hajar Asqalani|Ibn Hajar]] (1372–1449).<ref>Chase F. Robinson, ''Islamic historiography'' (Cambridge University Press, 2003)</ref> Historians of the [[Islamic Golden Age|medieval Islamic world]] also developed an interest in world history.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Khan |first1=M. S. |year=1976 |title=al-Biruni and the Political History of India |journal=Oriens |volume=25 |pages=86–115 |doi=10.2307/1580658 |jstor=1580658 }}</ref> Islamic historical writing eventually culminated in the works of the Arab Muslim historian [[Ibn Khaldun]] (1332–1406), who published his historiographical studies in the ''[[Muqaddimah]]'' (translated as ''Prolegomena'') and ''Kitab al-I'bar'' (''Book of Advice'').<ref>Khalidi, Tarif. Arabic historical thought in the classical period. Cambridge Univ Pr, 1996. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511583650</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=The Spread of Ibn Khaldun's Ideas on Climate and Culture|author=Warren E. Gates|journal=[[Journal of the History of Ideas]]|volume=28|issue=3|date=July–September 1967|pages=415–422|jstor=2708627|doi=10.2307/2708627}}</ref> His work was forgotten until it was rediscovered in the late 19th century.<ref>Charles Issawi, ''An Arab Philosophy of History: Selections from the Prolegomena of Ibn Khaldun of Tunis'' (1987). {{ISBN|978-0878500567}}</ref>

====Jewish====
{{main|modern Jewish historiography}}
Jewish historiography built on biblical and medieval historiography with significant periods in the 16th and 19th centuries, building on works such as the chains of tradition of the oral law, Christian and Hellenistic historiography, and the [[Josippon]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bowman |first=Steven |date=1995 |title='Yosippon' and Jewish Nationalism |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4618850 |journal=Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research |volume=61 |pages=23–51 |jstor=4618850 |issn=0065-6798}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jelinčič Boeta |first=Klemen |date=2023 |title=Jewish Historiography |url=https://www.teof.uni-lj.si/uploads/File/Edinost/78/01/Jelincic.pdf |journal=Edinost in Dialog |language=sl |volume=78 |issue=1 |doi=10.34291/Edinost/78/01/Jelincic |issn=2385-8907}}</ref>

====East Asia====
=====Japan=====
{{main|Historiography of Japan}}
{{further|Japanese literature}}
The earliest works of history produced in Japan were the ''[[Rikkokushi]]'' (Six National Histories), a corpus of six national histories covering the history of Japan from its mythological beginnings until the 9th century. The first of these works were the ''[[Nihon Shoki]]'', compiled by [[Prince Toneri]] in 720.

=====Korea=====
{{main|Historiography of Korea}}
{{further|Korean literature}}
The tradition of Korean historiography was established with the ''[[Samguk sagi]]'', a history of Korea from its allegedly earliest times. It was compiled by [[Goryeo]] court historian [[Kim Pusik]] after its commission by King [[Injong of Goryeo]] (r. 1122–1146). It was completed in 1145 and relied not only on earlier Chinese histories for source material, but also on the ''[[Hwarang Segi]]'' written by the [[Silla]] historian [[Kim Taemun]] in the 8th century. The latter work is now lost.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ki-Moon Lee|author2=S. Robert Ramsey|title=A History of the Korean Language|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2AmspKX3beoC&pg=PA37|year=2011|page=37|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1139494489}}</ref>

=====China=====
The ''[[Shitong]]'', published around 710 by the Tang Chinese historian [[Liu Zhiji]] (661–721), was the first work to provide an outline of the entire tradition of Chinese historiography up to that point, and the first comprehensive work on [[historical criticism]], arguing that historians should be skeptical of primary sources, rely on systematically gathered evidence, and should not treat previous scholars with undue deference.<ref name="Vann-2023"/> In 1084 the [[Song dynasty]] official [[Sima Guang]] completed the ''[[Zizhi Tongjian]]'' (Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government), which laid out the entire history of China from the beginning of the [[Warring States period]] (403 BC) to the end of the [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period|Five Dynasties period]] (959) in chronological annals form, rather than in the traditional annals-biography form. This work is considered much more accessible than the "Official Histories" for the [[Six dynasties]], [[Tang dynasty]], and [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period|Five Dynasties]], and in practice superseded those works in the mind of the general reader.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wilkinson, Endymion |title=Chinese History: A New Manual |publisher=Self-published |year=2017 |isbn=978-0998888309 |edition=5th |pages=681–684}}</ref>

The great Song Neo-Confucian [[Zhu Xi]] found the Mirror to be overly long for the average reader, as well as too morally nihilist, and therefore prepared a didactic summary of it called the ''[[Zizhi Tongjian Gangmu]]'' (Digest of the Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government), posthumously published in 1219. It reduced the original's 249 chapters to just 59, and for the rest of imperial Chinese history would be the first history book most people ever read.<ref>Wilkinson (2018) p. 685</ref>

====South East Asia====
=====Philippines=====
{{main|Historiography of the Philippines}}
[[File:Laguna Copperplate Inscription.gif|thumb|Laguna copperplate inscription]]

[[Historiography of the Philippines]] refers to the studies, sources, critical methods and interpretations used by scholars to study the history of the [[Philippines]]. It includes historical and archival research and writing on the history of the Philippine archipelago including the islands of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Foronda |first1=Marcelino A. |title=Some Notes on Philippine Historiography |date=1972 |publisher=United Publishing Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d6AeAAAAMAAJ |access-date=1 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="sebastian">{{cite journal |last1=Sebastian |first1=Raul Roland R. |title=Philippine Historiography: Issues and Trends |journal=Social Sciences and Development Review |pages=15–38 |url=https://apps.pup.edu.ph/ojs/data/issue/attachment/c5e6c7bdf4ae4fd7a263f5c45847d64468a1b170.pdf |access-date=1 October 2019 |archive-date=1 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001145437/https://apps.pup.edu.ph/ojs/data/issue/attachment/c5e6c7bdf4ae4fd7a263f5c45847d64468a1b170.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Philippine archipelago was part of many empires before the Spanish Empire arrived in the 16th century.

Southeast Asia is classified as part of the [[Indosphere]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sagar |first1=Krishna Chandra |title=An Era of Peace |date=2002 |publisher=Northern Book Centre |isbn=978-8172111212 |pages=39–51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zq6KlY1MnE8C&q=indosphere+philippines |access-date=2 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cœdès |first1=George |title=The Indianized States of Southeast Asia |date=1968 |publisher=Australian National University Press |isbn=978-0824800710 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ziGtQAACAAJ&q=indosphere+philippines |access-date=2 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref> and the [[Sinosphere]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lynn |first1=Pan |title=Sons of the Yellow Emperor: A History of the Chinese Diaspora |publisher=Kodansha International |isbn=978-1568360324 |pages=418 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FbXNwAEACAAJ |access-date=2 October 2019|year=1994 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Fogel |first1=Joshua A. |title=Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time |date=2009 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0674053823 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lWUtJap6EOIC |access-date=2 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref> The archipelago had direct contact with [[China]] during the [[Song dynasty]] (960–1279),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wickberg |first1=Edgar |title=The Chinese in Philippine Life, 1850–1898 |date=2000 |publisher=Ateneo University Press |isbn=978-9715503525 |url=https://archive.org/details/chineseinphilipp0000wick |url-access=registration |access-date=2 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref> and was a part of the [[Srivijaya]] and [[Majapahit]] empires.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Francisco |first1=Juan R. |title=Indian Influences in the Philippines: With Special Reference to Language and Literature |date=1964 |publisher=University of the Philippines |pages=310 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j8NwwaroZn4C |access-date=2 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

The pre-colonial Philippines widely used the [[abugida]] system in writing and seals on documents, though it was for communication and no recorded writings of early literature or history.{{clarify|date=October 2020}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rodríguez |first1=Rebeca Ferndández |title=Early writing and printing in the Philippines |journal=History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences |date=9 July 2013 |url=https://hiphilangsci.net/2013/07/10/early-writing-and-printing-in-the-philippines/ |access-date=2 October 2019 |language=en |archive-date=10 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810003537/https://hiphilangsci.net/2013/07/10/early-writing-and-printing-in-the-philippines/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Ancient Filipinos usually wrote documents on bamboo, bark, and leaves, which did not survive, unlike inscriptions on clay, metal, and ivory did, such as the [[Laguna Copperplate Inscription]] and [[Butuan Ivory Seal]]. The discovery of the [[Butuan Ivory Seal]] also proves the use of paper documents in ancient Philippines.

After the Spanish conquest, pre-colonial Filipino manuscripts and documents were gathered and burned to eliminate pagan beliefs. This has been the burden of historians in the accumulation of data and the development of theories that gave historians many aspects of Philippine history that were left unexplained.<ref name="sebastian"/> The interplay of pre-colonial events and the use of secondary sources written by historians to evaluate the primary sources, do not provide a critical examination of the methodology of the early Philippine historical study.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=William Henry |title=Barangay: Sixteenth-century Philippine Culture and Society |date=1994 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=15KZU-yMuisC&q=henry+otley+beyer+theory+philippines&pg=PA10 |access-date=2 October 2019 |publisher=Ateneo University Press |language=en|isbn=978-9715501354 }}</ref>

===Enlightenment===
[[File:Buste de Voltaire.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Voltaire]]'s works of history are an excellent example of [[Enlightenment era]] advances in accuracy.]]

During the [[Age of Enlightenment]], the modern development of historiography through the application of scrupulous methods began. Among the many Italians who contributed to this were [[Leonardo Bruni]] (c. 1370–1444), [[Francesco Guicciardini]] (1483–1540), and [[Caesar Baronius|Cesare Baronio]] (1538–1607).

====Voltaire====
French ''[[Philosophes|philosophe]]'' [[Voltaire]] (1694–1778) had an enormous influence on the development of historiography during the Age of Enlightenment through his demonstration of fresh new ways to look at the past. Guillaume de Syon argues:
{{blockquote|Voltaire recast historiography in both factual and analytical terms. Not only did he reject traditional biographies and accounts that claim the work of supernatural forces, but he went so far as to suggest that earlier historiography was rife with falsified evidence and required new investigations at the source. Such an outlook was not unique in that the scientific spirit that 18th-century intellectuals perceived themselves as invested with. A rationalistic approach was key to rewriting history.<ref>{{cite book|author=Guillaume de Syon |contribution=Voltaire |editor=Kelly Boyd |title=Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, vol 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0121vD9STIMC&pg=PA1270|date=1999|publisher=Taylor & Francis|pages=1270–1272|isbn=978-1884964336}}</ref>}}

Voltaire's best-known histories are ''[[The Age of Louis XIV]]'' (1751), and his ''[[Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations|Essay on the Customs and the Spirit of the Nations]]'' (1756). He broke from the tradition of narrating diplomatic and military events, and emphasized customs, social history and achievements in the arts and sciences. He was the first scholar to make a serious attempt to write the history of the world, eliminating theological frameworks, and emphasizing economics, culture and political history. Although he repeatedly warned against political bias on the part of the historian, he did not miss many opportunities to expose the intolerance and frauds of the church over the ages. Voltaire advised scholars that anything contradicting the normal course of nature was not to be believed. Although he found evil in the historical record, he fervently believed reason and educating the illiterate masses would lead to progress. Voltaire's ''[[History of Charles XII]]'' (1731) about the Swedish warrior king ([[Swedish language|Swedish]]: Karl XII) is also one of his most famous works. It is not least known as one of [[Napoleon|Napoleon's]] absolute favorite books.<ref>[https://www.napoleon-series.org/research/napoleon/c_read2.html] Grossman, Ira. 1995-2023. "Napoleon the Reader: The Imperial Years", In: ''The Napoleon Series''.</ref>

Voltaire explains his view of historiography in his article on "History" in Diderot's ''[[Encyclopédie]]'': "One demands of modern historians more details, better ascertained facts, precise dates, more attention to customs, laws, mores, commerce, finance, agriculture, population." Already in 1739 he had written: "My chief object is not political or military history, it is the history of the arts, of commerce, of civilization—in a word—of the human mind."<ref name="Sreedharan2004">{{cite book|author=E. Sreedharan|title=A Textbook of Historiography: 500 BC to AD 2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jJVoi3PIejwC&pg=PA115|year=2004|publisher=Orient Blackswan|page=115|isbn=978-8125026570}}</ref> Voltaire's histories used the values of the Enlightenment to evaluate the past. He helped free historiography from antiquarianism, [[Eurocentrism]], religious intolerance and a concentration on great men, diplomacy, and warfare.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sakmann |first1=Paul |year=1971 |title=The Problems of Historical Method and of Philosophy of History in Voltaire |journal=History and Theory |volume=11 |issue=4 |pages=24–59 |doi=10.2307/2504245 |jstor=2504245 }}</ref> [[Peter Gay]] says Voltaire wrote "very good history", citing his "scrupulous concern for truths", "careful sifting of evidence", "intelligent selection of what is important", "keen sense of drama", and "grasp of the fact that a whole civilization is a unit of study".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gay |first1=Peter |year=1957 |title=Carl Becker's Heavenly City |journal=Political Science Quarterly |volume=72 |issue=2 |pages=182–199 |doi=10.2307/2145772 |jstor=2145772 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Gay |first=Peter |title=Voltaire's Politics |year=1988 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0300040951 |edition=2nd}}</ref>{{full citation needed|date=March 2021}}

====David Hume====
At the same time, philosopher [[David Hume]] was having a similar effect on the study of history in [[Great Britain]]. In 1754 he published ''[[The History of England (Hume book)|The History of England]]'', a 6-volume work which extended "From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688". Hume adopted a similar scope to Voltaire in his history; as well as the history of Kings, Parliaments, and armies, he examined the history of culture, including literature and science, as well. His short biographies of leading scientists explored the process of scientific change and he developed new ways of seeing scientists in the context of their times by looking at how they interacted with society and each other—he paid special attention to [[Francis Bacon]], [[Robert Boyle]], [[Isaac Newton]] and [[William Harvey]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wertz |first1=S. K. |year=1993 |title=Hume and the Historiography of Science |journal=Journal of the History of Ideas |volume=54 |issue=3|pages=411–436 |doi=10.2307/2710021 |jstor=2710021 }}</ref>

He also argued that the quest for liberty was the highest standard for judging the past, and concluded that after considerable fluctuation, England at the time of his writing had achieved "the most entire system of liberty, that was ever known amongst mankind".<ref>Hume vol. 6. p. 531 cited in {{cite book|author=John Philipps Kenyon|title=The history men: the historical profession in England since the Renaissance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LkbAAAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=U. of Pittsburgh Press|page=42|isbn=978-0822959007}}</ref>

====Edward Gibbon====
[[File:Edward Gibbon by Henry Walton cleaned.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Edward Gibbon]]'s ''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]''

(1776) was a masterpiece of late 18th-century history writing.]]

The apex of Enlightenment history was reached with [[Edward Gibbon]]'s monumental six-volume work, ''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]'', published on 17 February 1776. Because of its relative objectivity and heavy use of [[primary source]]s, its methodology became a model for later historians. This has led to Gibbon being called the first "modern historian".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yH9rdaF1CckC|title=Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf|author=Deborah Parsons|year=2007|publisher=Routledge|page=94|isbn=978-0203965894}}</ref> The book sold impressively, earning its author a total of about £9000. Biographer [[Leslie Stephen]] wrote that thereafter, "His fame was as rapid as it has been lasting."

Gibbon's work has been praised for its style, its piquant epigrams and its effective irony. [[Winston Churchill]] memorably noted, "I set out upon&nbsp;... Gibbon's ''Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' [and] was immediately dominated both by the story and the style.&nbsp;... I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all."<ref>Winston Churchill, ''My Early Life: A Roving Commission'' (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958), p. 111.</ref> Gibbon was pivotal in the secularizing and 'desanctifying' of history, remarking, for example, on the "want of truth and common sense" of biographies composed by [[Saint Jerome]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.historytoday.com/tom-holland/edward-gibbon-and-he-rose-again|title=Edward Gibbon: And He Rose Again|access-date=2012-12-17|archive-date=2015-09-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912101729/http://www.historytoday.com/tom-holland/edward-gibbon-and-he-rose-again|url-status=live}}</ref> Unusually for an 18th-century historian, Gibbon was never content with secondhand accounts when the primary sources were accessible (though most of these were drawn from well-known printed editions). He said, "I have always endeavoured to draw from the fountain-head; that my curiosity, as well as a sense of duty, has always urged me to study the originals; and that, if they have sometimes eluded my search, I have carefully marked the secondary evidence, on whose faith a passage or a fact were reduced to depend."<ref>Womersley, ''Decline and Fall'', vol. 2, Preface to Gibbon vol. 4, p. 520.</ref> In this insistence upon the importance of primary sources, Gibbon broke new ground in the methodical study of history:

<blockquote>In accuracy, thoroughness, lucidity, and comprehensive grasp of a vast subject, the 'History' is unsurpassable. It is the one English history which may be regarded as definitive.&nbsp;... Whatever its shortcomings the book is artistically imposing as well as historically unimpeachable as a vast panorama of a great period.<ref>Stephen, ''DNB'', p. 1134.</ref></blockquote>

===19th century===
[[File:Carlyle manuscript burning Japan cph.3g10399.tif|thumb|upright|Japanese print depicting [[Thomas Carlyle]]'s horror at the burning of his manuscript ''[[The French Revolution: A History]]'']]

The tumultuous events surrounding the [[French Revolution]] inspired much of the historiography and analysis of the early 19th century. Interest in the 1688 [[Glorious Revolution]] was also rekindled by the [[Reform Act 1832|Reform Act of 1832]] in [[England]]. Nineteenth century historiography, especially among American historians, featured conflicting viewpoints that represented the times. According to 20th-century historian Richard Hofstadter:<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hofstadter |first=Richard |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794225464 |title=The progressive historians: Turner, Beard, Perrington |date=1969 |publisher=Cape |isbn=978-0-307-80960-5 |location=London |oclc=794225464}}</ref>{{blockquote|The historians of the nineteenth century worked under the pressure of two internal tensions: on one side there was the constant demand of society—whether through the nationstate, the church, or some special group or class interest—for memory mixed with myth, for the historical tale that would strengthen group loyalties or confirm national pride; and against this there were the demands of critical method, and even, after a time, the goal of writing "scientific" history.}}

====Thomas Carlyle====
[[Thomas Carlyle]] published his three-volume ''[[The French Revolution: A History]]'', in 1837. The first volume was accidentally burned by [[John Stuart Mill]]'s maid. Carlyle rewrote it from scratch.<ref>[[John D. Rosenberg]], ''Carlyle and the Burden of History''  (1985). {{ISBN|978-0674422988}}</ref> Carlyle's style of historical writing stressed the immediacy of action, often using the present tense. He emphasised the role of forces of the spirit in history and thought that chaotic events demanded what he called 'heroes' to take control over the competing forces erupting within society. He considered the dynamic forces of history as being the hopes and aspirations of people that took the form of ideas, and were often ossified into ideologies. Carlyle's ''The French Revolution'' was written in a highly unorthodox style, far removed from the neutral and detached tone of the tradition of Gibbon. Carlyle presented the history as dramatic events unfolding in the present as though he and the reader were participants on the streets of Paris at the famous events. Carlyle's invented style was epic poetry combined with philosophical treatise. It is rarely read or cited in the last century.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cobban |first1=Alfred |year=1963 |title=Carlyle's French Revolution |journal=History |volume=48 |issue=164 |pages=306–316 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-229x.1963.tb02321.x }}</ref><ref>Mark Cumming, ''A Disimprisoned Epic: Form and Vision in Carlyle's French Revolution'' (1988). {{JSTOR|j.ctv4v332n}}. {{Cite book |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv4v332n |title=A Disimprisoned Epic |jstor=j.ctv4v332n |access-date=24 April 2023 |archive-date=24 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424204529/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv4v332n |url-status=bot: unknown |last1=Cumming |first1=Mark |date=1988 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0-8122-8117-0 }}.</ref>

====French historians: Michelet and Taine====
[[File:Jules Michelet portrait older.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Jules Michelet (1798–1874), later in his career]]
[[File:Hippolyte taine.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893)]]

In his main work ''Histoire de France'' (1855), French historian [[Jules Michelet]] (1798–1874) coined the term [[Renaissance]] (meaning "rebirth" in [[French language|French]]), as a period in Europe's cultural history that represented a break from the Middle Ages, creating a modern understanding of humanity and its place in the world.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brotton |first=Jerry |title=The Renaissance Bazaar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QI-iz4oaE20C&pg=PA21 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0192802651 |pages=21–22 |author-link1=Jerry Brotton}}</ref> The 19-volume work covered French history from [[Charlemagne]] to the outbreak of the [[French Revolution]]. His inquiry into manuscript and printed authorities was most laborious, but his lively imagination, and his strong religious and political prejudices, made him regard all things from a singularly personal point of view.<ref>Arthur Mitzmanm, ''Michelet, Historian: Rebirth and Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century France'' (1990) {{doi|10.2307/j.ctt2250whr}}.</ref>

Michelet was one of the first historians to shift the emphasis of history to the common people, rather than the leaders and institutions of the country. He had a decisive impact on scholars. Gayana Jurkevich argues that led by Michelet:
{{blockquote|19th-century French historians no longer saw history as the chronicling of royal dynasties, armies, treaties, and great men of state, but as the history of ordinary French people and the landscape of France.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gayana Jurkevich|title=In Pursuit of the Natural Sign|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-mV6wNgmwT4C&pg=PA42|year=1999|page=42|publisher=Bucknell University Press |isbn=978-0838754139}}</ref>}}

[[Hippolyte Taine]] (1828–1893), although unable to secure an academic position, was the chief theoretical influence of French [[Naturalism (literature)|naturalism]], a major proponent of [[sociological positivism]], and one of the first practitioners of [[Historicism|historicist]] criticism. He pioneered the idea of "the milieu" as an active historical force which amalgamated geographical, psychological, and social factors. Historical writing for him was a search for general laws. His brilliant style kept his writing in circulation long after his theoretical approaches were passé.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Alfred |last=Cobban |author-link=Alfred Cobban |title=Hippolyte Taine, Historian of the French Revolution |journal=History |year=1968 |volume=53 |issue=179 |pages=331–341|doi=10.1111/j.1468-229X.1968.tb01226.x }}</ref>

====Cultural and constitutional history====
One of the major progenitors of the history of [[cultural history|culture]] and [[art history|art]], was the Swiss historian [[Jacob Burckhardt]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/historian/Jacob_Burckhardt.html|title=Jacob Burckhardt The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Cultural history|website=www.age-of-the-sage.org|access-date=2014-01-08|archive-date=2019-08-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804133058/https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/historian/Jacob_Burckhardt.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Siegfried Giedion]] described Burckhardt's achievement in the following terms: "The great discoverer of the age of the [[Renaissance]], he first showed how a period should be treated in its entirety, with regard not only for its painting, sculpture and architecture, but for the social institutions of its daily life as well."<ref>[[Siegfried Giedion]], in ''Space, Time and Architecture'' (6th ed.), p. 3. {{ISBN|978-0674030473}}</ref>

His most famous work was ''The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy'', published in 1860; it was the most influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance in the nineteenth century and is still widely read. According to [[John Lukacs]], he was the first master of cultural history, which seeks to describe the spirit and the forms of expression of a particular age, a particular people, or a particular place. His innovative approach to historical research stressed the importance of art and its inestimable value as a primary source for the study of history. He was one of the first historians to rise above the narrow nineteenth-century notion that "history is past politics and politics current history."<ref>John Lukacs, ''Remembered Past: John Lukacs on History, Historians, and Historical Knowledge'', ed. Mark G Malvasi and Jeffrey O. Nelson, Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2004, p. 215.</ref>

By the mid-19th century, scholars were beginning to analyse the history of institutional change, particularly the development of constitutional government. [[William Stubbs]]'s ''Constitutional History of England'' (3 vols., 1874–1878) was an important influence on this developing field. The work traced the development of the English constitution from the Teutonic invasions of Britain until 1485, and marked a distinct step in the advance of English historical learning.<ref>[[s:A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Stubbs, William]]</ref> He argued that the theory of the unity and continuity of history should not remove distinctions between ancient and modern history. He believed that, though work on ancient history is a useful preparation for the study of modern history, either may advantageously be studied apart. He was a good [[palaeography|palaeographer]], and excelled in textual criticism, in examination of authorship, and other such matters, while his vast erudition and retentive memory made him second to none in interpretation and exposition.<ref>''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' (11th ed.)</ref>

====Von Ranke and professionalization in Germany====
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[[File:Leopold Von Ranke 1877.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Leopold von Ranke|Ranke]] established history as a professional academic discipline in Germany.]]

The modern academic study of history and methods of historiography were pioneered in 19th-century German universities, especially the [[University of Göttingen]]. [[Leopold von Ranke]] (1795–1886) at Berlin was a pivotal influence in this regard, and was the founder of modern source-based history.<ref>Frederick C. Beiser (2011) ''The German Historicist Tradition'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=w2c6YaKf9usC&pg=PA254 p. 254] https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199691555.001.0001</ref><ref>Green and Troup (eds.), ''The Houses of History'', p. 2: "Leopold von Ranke was instrumental in establishing professional standards for historical training at the University of Berlin between 1824 and 1871."</ref> According to Caroline Hoefferle, "Ranke was probably the most important historian to shape historical profession as it emerged in Europe and the United States in the late 19th century."<ref>Caroline Hoefferle, ''Essential Historiography Reader'' (Boston: Pearson, 2011). 68. {{ISBN|978-0321437624}}</ref><ref>Georg G. Iggers, "The image of Ranke in American and German historical thought". ''History and Theory'' 2.1 (1962): 17–40. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2504333 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402182609/http://www.jstor.org/stable/2504333 |date=2017-04-02 }}</ref>

Specifically, he implemented the seminar teaching method in his classroom, and focused on archival research and analysis of historical documents. Beginning with his first book in 1824, the ''History of the Latin and Teutonic Peoples from 1494 to 1514'', Ranke used an unusually wide variety of sources for a historian of the age, including "memoirs, diaries, personal and formal missives, government documents, diplomatic dispatches and first-hand accounts of eye-witnesses". Over a career that spanned much of the century, Ranke set the standards for much of later historical writing, introducing such ideas as reliance on [[primary source]]s, an emphasis on [[narrative history]] and especially international politics ({{lang|de|Aussenpolitik}}).<ref>E. Sreedharan, ''A textbook of historiography, 500&nbsp;BC to AD&nbsp;2000'' (2004) p.  185 {{ISBN|978-0321437624}}</ref> Sources had to be solid, not speculations and rationalizations. His credo was to write history the way it was. He insisted on primary sources with proven authenticity.

Ranke also rejected the 'teleological approach' to history, which traditionally viewed each period as inferior to the period which follows. In Ranke's view, the historian had to understand a period on its own terms, and seek to find only the general ideas which animated every period of history. In 1831 and at the behest of the [[Prussia]]n government, Ranke founded and edited the first historical journal in the world, called {{lang|de|Historisch-Politische Zeitschrift}}.

Another important German thinker was [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]], whose theory of historical progress ran counter to Ranke's approach. In Hegel's own words, his philosophical theory of "World history&nbsp;... represents the development of the spirit's consciousness of its own [[Freedom of will|freedom]] and of the consequent realization of this freedom."<ref>''Lectures'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=pjfaimuprzoC&pg=PA138&hl=en&dq=%22represents+the+development+of+the+spirit's+consciousness+of+its+own+freedom+and+of+the+consequent+realisation+of+this+freedom.%22 p. 138].</ref> This realization is seen by studying the various cultures that have developed over the millennia, and trying to understand the way that freedom has worked itself out through them:

<blockquote>World history is the record of the spirit's efforts to attain knowledge of what it is in itself. The Orientals do not know that the spirit or man as such are free in themselves. And because they do not know that, they are not themselves free. They only know that '''One''' is free.&nbsp;... The consciousness of freedom first awoke among the [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]], and they were accordingly free; but, like the Romans, they only knew that '''Some''', and not all men as such, are free.&nbsp;... The [[Germans#Middle Ages|Germanic nations]], with the rise of [[Christianity]], were the first to realize that '''All''' men are by nature free, and that freedom of spirit is his very essence.<ref>''Lectures'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=pjfaimuprzoC&pg=PA54&hl=en&dq=%22World+history+is+the+record+of+the+spirit's+efforts+to+attain+knowledge+of+what+it+is+in+itself.+The+Orientals+do+not+know+that+the+spirit+or+man+as+such+are+free+in+themselves.+And+because+they+do+not+know+that,+they+are+not+themselves+free.+They+only+know+that+One+is+free.%22%22The+consciousness+of+freedom+first+awoke+among+the+Greeks,+and+they+were+accordingly+free;+but,+like+the+Romans,+they+only+knew+that+Some,+and+not+all+men+as+such,+are+free%22%22The+Germanic+nations,+with+the+rise+of+Christianity,+were+the+first+to+realize+that+All+men+are+by+nature+free,+and+that+freedom+of+spirit+is+his+very+essence.%22 p. 54].</ref>
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[[Karl Marx]] introduced the concept of [[historical materialism]] into the study of world historical development. In his conception, the economic conditions and dominant modes of production determined the structure of society at that point. In his view five successive stages in the development of material conditions would occur in [[Western Europe]]. The first stage was [[primitive communism]] where property was shared and there was no concept of "leadership". This progressed to a [[Slavery|slave society]] where the idea of [[Social class|class]] emerged and the [[State (polity)|State]] developed. [[Feudalism]] was characterized by an [[aristocracy]] working in partnership with a [[theocracy]] and the emergence of the [[nation-state]]. [[Capitalism]] appeared after the bourgeois revolution when the capitalists (or their merchant predecessors) overthrew the feudal system and established a [[market economy]], with
[[private property]] and [[parliamentary democracy]]. Marx then predicted the eventual proletarian revolution that would result in the attainment of [[socialism]], followed by [[communism]], where property would be communally owned.

Previous historians had focused on cyclical events of the rise and decline of rulers and nations. Process of [[nationalization of history]], as part of [[Romantic nationalism|national revivals]] in the 19th century, resulted with separation of "one's own" history from common [[Universal history (genre)|universal history]] by such way of perceiving, understanding and treating the past that constructed history as history of a nation.<ref name="laboratory">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f52rawP96lYC&q=%22nationalisation+of+history%22&pg=PA39 |title=A Laboratory of Transnational History Ukraine and recent Ukrainian historiography |access-date=18 October 2010 |first1=Georgiy |last1=Kasianov frist2=Philipp |last2=Terr |page=7 |quote=This essay deals with, what I call, 'nationalized history', meaning a way of perceiving, understanding and treating the past that requires separation of 'one's own' history from 'common' history and its construction as history of a nation. |isbn=978-1-84545-621-4 |date=2010 |publisher=Berghahn Books }}</ref> A new discipline, [[sociology]], emerged in the late 19th century and analyzed and compared these perspectives on a larger scale.

====Macaulay and Whig history====
[[File:Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay|Macaulay]] was the most influential exponent of the [[Whig history]].]]

The term "[[Whig history]]", coined by [[Herbert Butterfield]] in his short book ''The Whig Interpretation of History'' in 1931, means the approach to historiography which presents the past as an inevitable progression towards ever greater liberty and enlightenment, culminating in modern forms of [[liberal democracy]] and [[constitutional monarchy]]. In general, Whig historians emphasized the rise of [[constitutional government]], [[personal freedom]]s and [[scientific progress]]. The term has been also applied widely in historical disciplines outside of [[British history]] (the [[history of science]], for example) to criticize any [[Teleology|teleological]] (or goal-directed), hero-based, and [[Transhistoricity|transhistorical]] narrative.<ref>Ernst Mayr, "When Is Historiography Whiggish?" ''Journal of the History of Ideas'', April 1990, Vol. 51 Issue 2, pp. 301–309 [https://www.jstor.org/pss/2709517 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119090931/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2709517 |date=2022-11-19 }}</ref>

[[Paul de Rapin|Paul Rapin de Thoyras]]'s history of England, published in 1723, became "the classic Whig history" for the first half of the 18th century.<ref>Hugh Trevor-Roper, "Introduction", ''Lord Macaulay's History of England'' (Penguin Classics, 1979), p. 10. {{ISBN|978-0140431339}}</ref> It was later supplanted by the immensely popular ''[[The History of England (Hume)|The History of England]]'' by [[David Hume]]. Whig historians emphasized the achievements of the [[Glorious Revolution]] of 1688. This included [[James Mackintosh]]'s ''History of the Revolution in England in 1688'', [[William Blackstone]]'s ''[[Commentaries on the Laws of England]]'', and [[Henry Hallam]]'s ''Constitutional History of England''.<ref>''The Nature of History'' (second edition 1980), p. 47.</ref>

The most famous exponent of 'Whiggery' was [[Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay|Thomas Babington Macaulay]]. His writings are famous for their ringing prose and for their confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history, according to which the country threw off superstition, autocracy and confusion to create a balanced constitution and a forward-looking culture combined with freedom of belief and expression. This model of human progress has been called the [[Whig history|Whig interpretation of history]].<ref>John Clive, ''Macaulay – the shaping of the historian'' (1975) {{ISBN|978-0394715070}}</ref> He published the first volumes of his most famous work of history, ''[[The History of England from the Accession of James II]]'', in 1848. It proved an immediate success and replaced Hume's history to become the new orthodoxy.<ref>Trevor-Roper, pp. 25–26.</ref> His 'Whiggish convictions' are spelled out in his first chapter:

{{blockquote|I shall relate how the new settlement was&nbsp;... successfully defended against foreign and domestic enemies; how&nbsp;... the authority of law and the security of property were found to be compatible with a liberty of discussion and of individual action never before known; how, from the auspicious union of order and freedom, sprang a prosperity of which the annals of human affairs had furnished no example; how our country, from a state of ignominious [[vassalage]], rapidly rose to the place of umpire among European powers; how her opulence and her martial glory grew together;&nbsp;... how a gigantic commerce gave birth to a maritime power, compared with which every other maritime power, ancient or modern, sinks into insignificance&nbsp;... the history of our country during the last hundred and sixty years is eminently the history of physical, of moral, and of intellectual improvement.}}

His legacy continues to be controversial; [[Gertrude Himmelfarb]] wrote that "most professional historians have long since given up reading Macaulay, as they have given up writing the kind of history he wrote and thinking about history as he did."<ref>Gertrude Himmelfarb, "Who Now Reads Macaulay?", ''Marriage and Morals Among The Victorians. And other Essays'' (London: [[Faber and Faber]], 1986), p. 163.</ref> However, J. R. Western wrote that: "Despite its age and blemishes, Macaulay's ''History of England'' has still to be superseded by a full-scale modern history of the period".<ref>J. R. Western, ''Monarchy and Revolution. The English State in the 1680s'' (London: Blandford Press, 1972), p. 403. {{ISBN|978-0713732801}}</ref>

The Whig consensus was steadily undermined during the post-[[World War I]] re-evaluation of European history, and Butterfield's critique exemplified this trend. Intellectuals no longer believed the world was automatically getting better and better. Subsequent generations of academic historians have similarly rejected Whig history because of its [[Presentism (historical analysis)|presentist]] and teleological assumption that history is driving toward some sort of goal.<ref>Victor Feske, ''From Belloc to Churchill: Private Scholars, Public Culture, and the Crisis of British Liberalism, 1900–1939'' (1996), p. 2. {{JSTOR|10.5149/9780807861387_feske}}. {{Cite book |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807861387_feske |title=From Belloc to Churchill |jstor=10.5149/9780807861387_feske |access-date=24 April 2023 |archive-date=24 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424204528/https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807861387_feske |url-status=bot: unknown |last1=Feske |first1=Victor |date=1996 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0-8078-4601-8 }}.</ref> Other criticized 'Whig' assumptions included viewing the British system as the apex of human political development, assuming that political figures in the past held current political beliefs ([[anachronism]]), considering British history as a march of progress with inevitable outcomes and presenting political figures of the past as heroes, who advanced the cause of this political progress, or villains, who sought to hinder its inevitable triumph. J. Hart says "a Whig interpretation requires human heroes and villains in the story."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hart |first1=J. |year=1965 |title=Nineteenth-Century Social Reform: A Tory Interpretation of History |journal=Past & Present |issue=31 |pages=39–61 |doi=10.1093/past/31.1.39 }}</ref>

===20th century===
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20th-century historiography in major countries is characterized by a move to universities and academic research centers. Popular history continued to be written by self-educated amateurs, but scholarly history increasingly became the province of PhD's trained in research seminars at a university. The training emphasized working with primary sources in archives. Seminars taught graduate students how to review the historiography of the topics, so that they could understand the conceptual frameworks currently in use, and the criticisms regarding their strengths and weaknesses.<ref>John Higham, ''History: Professional Scholarship in America'' (1989) ch 1 {{ISBN|978-0801839528}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=Ian |last=Hesketh |title=Writing history in Macaulay's shadow: J. R. Seeley, E. A. Freeman, and the audience for scientific history in late Victorian Britain |journal=Journal of the Canadian Historical Association |volume=22 |issue=2 |year=2011 |pages=30–56 |doi=10.7202/1008977ar |doi-access=free }}</ref> Western Europe and the United States took leading roles in this development. The emergence of [[area studies]] of other regions also developed historiographical practices.

====France: ''Annales'' school====
{{main|Annales school}}{{See also|Historiography of France}}[[File:Marc Bloch.jpg|thumb|upright|The 20th century saw the creation of a huge variety of historiographical approaches; one was [[Marc Bloch]]'s focus on social history rather than traditional political history.]]

The French [[Annales school|''Annales'' school]] radically changed the focus of historical research in France during the 20th century by stressing long-term social history, rather than political or diplomatic themes. The school emphasized the use of quantification and the paying of special attention to geography.<ref>See Lucien Febvre, ''La Terre et l'évolution humaine'' (1922), translated as ''A Geographical Introduction to History'' (London, 1932).</ref><ref>See [http://www.editions.ehess.fr/revues/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales/numeros-parus/ for recent issues] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928120516/http://www.editions.ehess.fr/revues/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales/numeros-parus/ |date=2008-09-28 }}</ref>

The ''Annales d'histoire économique et sociale'' journal was founded in 1929 in [[Strasbourg]] by [[Marc Bloch]] and [[Lucien Febvre]]. These authors, the former a medieval historian and the latter an early modernist, quickly became associated with the distinctive ''Annales'' approach, which combined geography, history, and the sociological approaches of the [[Année Sociologique]] (many members of which were their colleagues at Strasbourg) to produce an approach which rejected the predominant emphasis on politics, diplomacy and war of many 19th and early 20th-century historians as spearheaded by historians whom Febvre called Les Sorbonnistes. Instead, they pioneered an approach to a study of long-term historical structures (''la [[longue durée]]'') over events and political transformations.<ref>Colin Jones, "[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/past_and_present/v2006/2006.1Sjones.html Olwen Hufton's 'Poor', Richard Cobb's 'People', and the Notions of the longue durée in French Revolutionary Historiography]", ''Past & Present'', 2006 Supplement (Volume 1), pp. 178–203, in Project Muse.</ref> Geography, material culture, and what later Annalistes called ''mentalités'', or the psychology of the epoch, are also characteristic areas of study. The goal of the ''Annales'' was to undo the work of the ''Sorbonnistes'', to turn French historians away from the narrowly political and diplomatic toward the new vistas in social and economic history.<ref>J.H. Hexter, "Fernand Braudel and the Monde Braudellien", '' Historians'', pp. 61 {{JSTOR|1876806}}. {{Cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1876806 |title=Fernand Braudel and the Monde Braudellien |jstor=1876806 |access-date=24 April 2023 |archive-date=24 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424204530/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1876806 |url-status=bot: unknown |last1=Hexter |first1=J. H. |journal=The Journal of Modern History |date=1972 |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=480–539 |doi=10.1086/240839 |url-access=subscription }}.</ref> For early modern Mexican history, the work of [[Marc Bloch]]'s student [[Francois Chevalier (historian)|François Chevalier]] on the formation of landed estates ([[haciendas]]) from the sixteenth century to the seventeenth had a major impact on Mexican history and historiography,<ref>François Chevalier, ''La formation des grands domains au Mexique (terre et sociéte aux SVIe et XVIIe siècles)'' Paris, Institut de ethnologie 1952.</ref> setting off an important debate about whether landed estates were basically feudal or capitalistic.<ref>[[Eric Van Young]], "Rural History" in ''The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History'', José C. Moya, ed. New York: Oxford University Press 2011, p. 312. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195166217.001.0001</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Van Young |first1=Eric |year=1983 |title=Mexican Rural History Since Chevalier: The Historiography of the Colonial Hacienda |journal=Latin American Research Review |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=5–62 |doi=10.1017/S0023879100021026 |s2cid=253142396 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

An eminent member of this school, [[Georges Duby]], described his approach to history as one that <blockquote>relegated the sensational to the sidelines and was reluctant to give a simple accounting of events, but strived on the contrary to pose and solve problems and, neglecting surface disturbances, to observe the long and medium-term evolution of economy, society and civilisation.</blockquote> The Annalistes, especially [[Lucien Febvre]], advocated a ''histoire totale'', or ''histoire tout court'', a complete study of a historical problem.

The second era of the school was led by [[Fernand Braudel]] and was very influential throughout the 1960s and 1970s, especially for his work on the Mediterranean region in the era of [[Philip II of Spain]]. Braudel developed the idea, often associated with Annalistes, of different modes of historical time: ''l'histoire quasi immobile'' (motionless history) of historical geography, the history of social, political and economic structures (''la [[longue durée]]''), and the history of men and events, in the context of their structures. His 'longue durée' approach stressed slow, and often imperceptible effects of space, climate and technology on the actions of human beings in the past. The ''Annales'' historians, after living through two world wars and major political upheavals in France, were deeply uncomfortable with the notion that multiple ruptures and discontinuities created history. They preferred to stress slow change and the longue durée. They paid special attention to geography, climate, and demography as long-term factors. They considered the continuities of the deepest structures were central to history, beside which upheavals in institutions or the superstructure of social life were of little significance, for history lies beyond the reach of conscious actors, especially the will of revolutionaries.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Olivia |last=Harris |title=Braudel: Historical Time and the Horror of Discontinuity |journal=[[History Workshop Journal]] |year=2004 |volume=57 |pages=161–174 |issn=1363-3554 |url=http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/849/ |doi=10.1093/hwj/57.1.161 |citeseerx=10.1.1.693.9898 |s2cid=170657656 |access-date=2017-08-30 |archive-date=2017-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830233941/http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/849/ |url-status=live }} Only Ariès was a true conservative—indeed a royalist.</ref>

Noting the political upheavals in Europe and especially in France in 1968, [[Eric Hobsbawm]] argued that "in France the virtual hegemony of Braudelian history and the ''Annales'' came to an end after 1968, and the international influence of the journal dropped steeply."<ref>{{cite book|author=Eric J. Hobsbawm|title=Interesting times: a twentieth-century life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VBQqAAAAYAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Pantheon Books|page=295|isbn=978-0375422348}}</ref> Multiple responses were attempted by the school. Scholars moved in multiple directions, covering in disconnected fashion the social, economic, and cultural history of different eras and different parts of the globe. By the time of crisis the school was building a vast publishing and research network reaching across France, Europe, and the rest of the world. Influence indeed spread out from Paris, but few new ideas came in. Much emphasis was given to quantitative data, seen as the key to unlocking all of social history.<ref>One of numerous spin-off journals was ''Histoire & mesure'' (1986–), devoted to quantitative history.</ref> However, the ''Annales'' ignored the developments in quantitative studies underway in the U.S. and Britain, which reshaped economic, political and demographic research.<ref>Georg G. Iggers, ''Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge'', 59–61. {{ISBN|978-0819567666}}</ref>

====Marxist historiography====
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[[Marxist historiography]] developed as a school of historiography influenced by the chief tenets of [[Marxism]], including the centrality of [[social class]] and [[economic]] constraints in determining historical outcomes ([[historical materialism]]). [[Friedrich Engels]] wrote ''[[The Peasant War in Germany]]'', which analysed social warfare in early Protestant Germany in terms of emerging capitalist classes. Although it lacked a rigorous engagement with archival sources, it indicated an early interest in [[People's history|history from below]] and class analysis, and it attempts a dialectical analysis. Another treatise of Engels, ''[[The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844]]'', was salient in creating the [[socialist]] impetus in British politics from then on, e.g. the [[Fabian Society]].

[[R. H. Tawney]] was an early historian working in this tradition. ''The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century'' (1912)<ref>[[William Rose Benét]] (1988) p.&nbsp;961</ref> and ''Religion and the Rise of Capitalism'' (1926), reflected his ethical concerns and preoccupations in economic history. He was profoundly interested in the issue of the enclosure of land in the English countryside in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and in [[Max Weber]]'s thesis on the connection between the appearance of [[Protestantism]] and the rise of capitalism. His belief in the rise of the gentry in the century before the outbreak of the Civil War in England provoked the 'Storm over the Gentry' in which his methods were subjected to severe criticisms by [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]] and John Cooper.

[[Historiography in the Soviet Union]] was greatly influenced by Marxist historiography, as [[historical materialism]] was extended into the Soviet version of [[dialectical materialism]].

A circle of historians inside the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] (CPGB) formed in 1946 and became a highly influential cluster of [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Marxist historiography|Marxist historians]], who contributed to [[history from below]] and class structure in early capitalist society. While some members of the group (most notably [[Christopher Hill (historian)|Christopher Hill]] and [[E. P. Thompson]]) left the CPGB after the [[1956 Hungarian Revolution]], the common points of British Marxist historiography continued in their works. They placed a great emphasis on the subjective determination of history.

Christopher Hill's studies on 17th-century English history were widely acknowledged and recognised as representative of this school.<ref name="Oxford DNB">{{cite ODNB|title=Hill, (John Edward) Christopher (1912–2003)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/89437|access-date=29 June 2012|date=January 2007|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/89437}}</ref> His books include ''Puritanism and Revolution'' (1958), ''Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution'' (1965 and revised in 1996), ''The Century of Revolution'' (1961), ''AntiChrist in 17th-century England'' (1971), ''The World Turned Upside Down'' (1972) and many others.

[[E. P. Thompson]] pioneered the study of history from below in his work, ''[[The Making of the English Working Class]]'', published in 1963. It focused on the forgotten history of the first working-class political left in the world in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. In his preface to this book, Thompson set out his approach to writing history from below:

{{blockquote|text=I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the [[Luddite]] cropper, the "obsolete" hand-loom weaver, the "Utopian" artisan, and even the deluded follower of [[Joanna Southcott]], from the enormous condescension of posterity. Their crafts and traditions may have been dying. Their hostility to the new industrialism may have been backward-looking. Their communitarian ideals may have been fantasies. Their insurrectionary conspiracies may have been foolhardy. But they lived through these times of acute social disturbance, and we did not. Their aspirations were valid in terms of their own experience; and, if they were casualties of history, they remain, condemned in their own lives, as casualties.}}

Thompson's work was also significant because of the way he defined "class". He argued that class was not a structure, but a relationship that changed over time. He opened the gates for a generation of labor historians, such as [[David Montgomery (historian)|David Montgomery]] and [[Herbert Gutman]], who made similar studies of the American working classes.

Other important Marxist historians included [[Eric Hobsbawm]], [[C. L. R. James]], [[Raphael Samuel]], [[A. L. Morton]] and [[Brian Pearce]].

====Biography====
{{Further|Biography}}
Biography has been a major form of historiography since the days when [[Plutarch]] wrote the parallel lives of great Roman and Greek leaders. It is a field especially attractive to nonacademic historians, and often to the spouses or children of famous people, who have access to the trove of letters and documents. Academic historians tend to downplay biography because it pays too little attention to broad social, cultural, political and economic forces, and perhaps too much attention to popular psychology. The "[[Great man theory|Great Man]]" tradition in Britain originated in the multi-volume ''[[Dictionary of National Biography]]'' (which originated in 1882 and issued updates into the 1970s); it continues to this day in the new ''[[Dictionary of National Biography|Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''. In the United States, the ''[[Dictionary of American Biography]]'' was planned in the late 1920s and appeared with numerous supplements into the 1980s. It has now been displaced by the ''[[American National Biography]]'' as well as numerous smaller historical encyclopedias that give thorough coverage to Great Persons. Bookstores do a thriving business in biographies, which sell far more copies than the esoteric monographs based on post-structuralism, cultural, racial or gender history. [[Michael Holroyd]] says the last forty years "may be seen as a golden age of biography", but nevertheless calls it the "shallow end of history". Nicolas Barker argues that "more and more biographies command an ever larger readership", as he speculates that biography has come "to express the spirit of our age".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Riall |first1=Lucy |year=2010 |title=The Shallow End of History? The Substance and Future of Political Biography |journal=Journal of Interdisciplinary History |volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=375–397 |doi=10.1162/jinh.2010.40.3.375 |s2cid=144340286 }}</ref>

Daniel R. Meister argues that:
{{blockquote|Biography Studies is emerging as an independent discipline, especially in the Netherlands. This Dutch School of biography is moving biography studies away from the less scholarly life writing tradition and towards history by encouraging its practitioners to utilize an approach adapted from microhistory.<ref>Daniel R. Meister, "The biographical turn and the case for historical biography" ''History Compass'' (Dec. 2017) {{doi|10.1111/hic3.12436}} [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hic3.12436/abstract?campaign=wolearlyview abstract] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213204736/http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hic3.12436/abstract?campaign=wolearlyview |date=2017-12-13 }}</ref>}}

====British debates====
{{Main|Historiography of the United Kingdom}}
Marxist historian [[E. H. Carr]] developed a controversial theory of history in his 1961 book ''[[What Is History?]]'', which proved to be one of the most influential books ever written on the subject.<ref name="Windshuttle">{{cite web|last=Windshuttle|first=Keith|title=The Real Stuff of History|publisher=Sydney Line|year=2001|url=http://www.sydneyline.com/Real%20Stuff%20of%20History.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211162744/http://www.sydneyline.com/Real%20Stuff%20of%20History.htm|archive-date=2008-12-11}}</ref> He presented a middle-of-the-road position between the empirical or (Rankean) view of history and [[R. G. Collingwood]]'s idealism, and rejected the empirical view of the historian's work being an accretion of "facts" that they have at their disposal as nonsense. He maintained that there is such a vast quantity of information that the historian always chooses the "facts" they decide to make use of. In Carr's famous example, he claimed that millions had crossed the Rubicon, but only Julius Caesar's crossing in 49&nbsp;BC is declared noteworthy by historians.<ref name="Huges-1">Huges-Warrington, p. 26</ref><ref>Carr, ''What Is History?'', p. 10; 1967 {{ISBN|978-0394703916}}</ref> For this reason, Carr argued that [[Leopold von Ranke]]'s famous dictum ''wie es eigentlich gewesen'' (show what actually happened) was wrong because it presumed that the "facts" influenced what the historian wrote, rather than the historian choosing what "facts of the past" they intended to turn into "historical facts".<ref>Carr, ''What Is History?'', pp. 8–13, 1967 {{ISBN|978-0394703916}}</ref> At the same time, Carr argued that the study of the facts may lead the historian to change his or her views. In this way, Carr argued that history was "an unending dialogue between the past and present".<ref name="Huges-1"/><ref>Carr, ''What Is History?'', p. 30, 1967 {{ISBN|978-0394703916}}</ref>

Carr is held by some critics to have had a deterministic outlook in history.<ref name="Huges-Warrington-1961a">Huges-Warrington, p. 27. One of his first and most influential critics was the British philosopher, Michael Oakeshott, 'What is History?' (1961), in idem, ''What is History and Other Essays'' (Exeter, 2004), 325.</ref> Others have modified or rejected this use of the label "determinist".<ref>See M. Hewitson, ''History and Causality'' (Basingstoke, 2014), pp. 86–93. {{ISBN|978-1-137-37240-6}}</ref> He took a hostile view of those historians who stress the workings of chance and contingency in the workings of history. In Carr's view, no individual is truly free of the social environment in which they live, but contended that within those limitations, there was room, albeit very narrow room for people to make decisions that affect history. Carr emphatically contended that history was a [[Social sciences|social science]], not an [[The arts|art]],<ref name="Huges-Warrington-1961b">Huges-Warrington, p. 28</ref> because historians like scientists seek generalizations that helped to broaden the understanding of one's subject.<ref name="Huges-Warrington-1961b"/><ref>Carr, ''What Is History?'', p. 62, 1967 {{ISBN|978-0394703916}}</ref>

One of Carr's most forthright critics was [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]], who argued that Carr's dismissal of the "might-have-beens of history" reflected a fundamental lack of interest in examining historical causation.<ref>Trevor-Roper, pp. 72–73</ref> Trevor-Roper asserted that examining possible alternative outcomes of history was far from being a "parlour-game" was rather an essential part of the historians' work,<ref name="Trevor-Roper">Trevor-Roper, p. 73</ref> as only by considering all possible outcomes of a given situation could a historian properly understand the period.

The controversy inspired Sir [[Geoffrey Elton]] to write his 1967 book ''The Practice of History''. Elton criticized Carr for his "whimsical" distinction between the "historical facts" and the "facts of the past", arguing that it reflected "...an extraordinarily arrogant attitude both to the past and to the place of the historian studying it".<ref>Elton, Geoffrey ''The Practice of History'', London: Methuen, 1967 pp. 56–57, {{ISBN|978-0631229803}}</ref> Elton, instead, strongly defended the traditional methods of history and was also appalled by the inroads made by [[postmodernism]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Ó Tuathaigh |first=M. A. G. |chapter=Irish historical 'revisionism': state of the art or ideological project? |editor-last=Brady |editor-first=Ciaran |title=Interpreting Irish History: the debate on historical revisionism, 1938–1994 |location=Blackrock |publisher=Irish Academic Press |year=1994 |isbn=978-0716525462 |pages=306–26 (325) }}</ref> Elton saw the duty of historians as empirically gathering evidence and objectively analyzing what the evidence has to say. As a traditionalist, he placed great emphasis on the role of individuals in history instead of abstract, impersonal forces. Elton saw political history as the highest kind of history. Elton had no use for those who seek history to make myths, to create laws to explain the past, or to produce theories such as [[Marxism]].

====U.S. approaches====
{{main|Historiography of the United States}}
Classical and European history was part of the 19th-century grammar curriculum. American history became a topic later in the 19th century.<ref>Barry Joyce, ''The First U.S. History Textbooks: Constructing and Disseminating the American Tale in the Nineteenth Century'' (Lexington, 2015). viii, 335 pp. {{ISBN|978-1498502153}}</ref>

In the historiography of the United States, there were a series of major approaches in the 20th century. In 2009–2012, there were an average of 16,000 new academic history books published in the U.S. every year.<ref>See [http://www.humanitiesindicators.org/content/indicatordoc.aspx?i=88#fig393 table IV-12b] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924031814/http://www.humanitiesindicators.org/content/indicatordoc.aspx?i=88#fig393 |date=2015-09-24 }}</ref>

=====Progressive historians=====
{{Main|Progressive historians}}
The [[Progressive historians]] were a group of 20th century historians of the United States associated with a historiographical tradition that embraced an economic interpretation of American history.<ref name="Hofstadter-1979">{{Cite book |last=Hofstadter |first=Richard |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4983475 |title=The progressive historians--Turner, Beard, Parrington |date=1979 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=0-226-34818-0 |location=Chicago |oclc=4983475}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Drake |first=Richard |title=Charles Austin Beard |chapter=Introduction: The Beardian Interpretation of American History |date=2018-12-15 |chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7591/9781501715143-004/html?lang=en |pages=1–6 |access-date=2023-04-26 |publisher=Cornell University Press |language=en |doi=10.7591/9781501715143-004 |isbn=978-1-5017-1514-3 |s2cid=239551539 |archive-date=2023-04-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426195114/https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7591/9781501715143-004/html?lang=en |url-status=live }}</ref> Most prominent among these was [[Charles A. Beard]], who was influential in academia and with the general public.<ref name="Hofstadter-1979" />

=====Consensus history=====
{{main|Consensus history}}
Consensus history emphasizes the basic unity of American values and downplays conflict as superficial. It was especially attractive in the 1950s and 1960s. Prominent leaders included [[Richard Hofstadter]], [[Louis Hartz]], [[Daniel Boorstin]], [[Allan Nevins]], [[Clinton Rossiter]], [[Edmund Morgan (historian)|Edmund Morgan]], and [[David M. Potter]].<ref>Dwight W. Hoover, "Some Comments on Recent United States Historiography", ''American Quarterly'' (1965) 17#2 Part 2: Supplement pp. 299–318 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2710801 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402182425/http://www.jstor.org/stable/2710801 |date=2017-04-02 }}</ref><ref>Peter Novick, ''That noble dream: The 'objectivity question' and the American historical profession'' (Cambridge University Press, 1988) pp. 320–60 {{ISBN|978-0521357456}}</ref> In 1948 Hofstadter made a compelling statement of the consensus model of the U.S. political tradition:
{{blockquote|The fierceness of the political struggles has often been misleading: for the range of vision embraced by the primary contestants in the major parties has always been bounded by the horizons of property and enterprise. However much at odds on specific issues, the major political traditions have shared a belief in the rights of property, the philosophy of economic individualism, the value of competition; they have accepted the economic virtues of capitalist culture as necessary qualities of man.<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Hofstadter|title=The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6k_G670uhZsC&pg=PR35|year=1948|publisher=Knopf|pages=xxxvi–xxxvii|isbn=978-0307809667}}</ref>}}

=====New Left history=====
Consensus history was rejected by [[New Left]] viewpoints that attracted a younger generation of radical historians in the 1960s. These viewpoints stress conflict and emphasize the central roles of class, race and gender. The history of dissent, and the experiences of racial minorities and disadvantaged classes was central to the narratives produced by New Left historians.<ref>John Higham, "Changing paradigms: The collapse of consensus history." ''Journal of American History'' (1989): 460–466. [http://tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz/~calda/Higham_Paradigms_ConsensusHistory.pdf online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232146/http://tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz/~calda/Higham_Paradigms_ConsensusHistory.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }}</ref><ref>Novick, ''That noble dream: The "objectivity question" and the American historical profession'' (1988) pp. 415–68 {{ISBN|978-0521357456}}</ref><ref>Irwin Unger,  "The 'New Left' and American History: Some Recent Trends in United States Historiography." ''American Historical Review'' (1967): 1237–1263. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1847792 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200425191312/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1847792 |date=2020-04-25 }}</ref>

=====Quantification and new approaches to history=====
{{main|Social history|Political history#United States: The new political history}}

'''[[Social history]]''', sometimes called the "new social history", is a broad branch that studies the experiences of ordinary people in the past.<ref>The "old" social history dealt with institutions like schools and churches, while the "new" dealt with students, teachers and churchgoers.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Veysey |first=Laurence |date=1979 |title=The "New" Social History in the Context of American Historical Writing |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2700953 |journal=Reviews in American History |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=1–12 |doi=10.2307/2700953 |jstor=2700953 |issn=0048-7511 |access-date=2023-04-25 |archive-date=2022-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609164831/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2700953 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref> It had major growth as a field in the 1960s and 1970s, and still is well represented in history departments. However, after 1980 the "cultural turn" directed the next generation to new topics. In the two decades from 1975 to 1995, the proportion of professors of history in U.S. universities identifying with social history rose from 31 to 41 percent, while the proportion of political historians fell from 40 to 30 percent.<ref name="Kennedy-1997"/>

The growth was enabled by the social sciences, computers, statistics, new data sources such as individual census information, and summer training programs at the [[Newberry Library]] and the [[University of Michigan]]. The New Political History saw the application of social history methods to politics, as the focus shifted from politicians and legislation to voters and elections.<ref>Allan G. Bogue, "The Quest for Numeracy: Data and Methods in American Political History", ''Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' 21#1 (1990), pp. 89–116 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/204919 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402183027/http://www.jstor.org/stable/204919 |date=2017-04-02 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Baker |first1=Paula |year=1999 |title=The Midlife Crisis of the New Political History |journal=Journal of American History |volume=86 |issue=1 |pages=158–166 |doi=10.2307/2567411 |jstor=2567411 }}</ref>

The [[Social Science History Association]] was formed in 1976 as an interdisciplinary group with a journal ''[[Social Science History]]'' and an annual convention. The goal was to incorporate in historical studies perspectives from all the social sciences, especially political science, sociology and economics. The pioneers shared a commitment to quantification. However, by the 1980s the first blush of quantification had worn off, as traditional historians counterattacked. [[Harvey J. Graff]] says:

{{blockquote|The case against the new mixed and confused a lengthy list of ingredients, including the following: history's supposed loss of identity and humanity in the stain of social science, the fear of subordinating quality to quantity, conceptual and technical fallacies, violation of the literary character and biographical base of "good" history (rhetorical and aesthetic concern), loss of audiences, derogation of history rooted in "great men" and "great events", trivialization in general, a hodgepodge of ideological objections from all directions, and a fear that new historians were reaping research funds that might otherwise come to their detractors. To defenders of history as they knew it, the discipline was in crisis, and the pursuit of the new was a major cause.<ref>Harvey J. Graff, "The Shock of the 'New' (Histories)': Social Science Histories and Historical Literacies", ''Social Science History'' 25.4 (2001) 483–533, at p. 490; in Project Muse</ref>}}

Meanwhile, "new" economic history became well-established. However, cliometrics has never been considered a historical field by the vast majority of historians so that cliometric articles have not been cited by historians.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Journal of Economic History main page |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Economic History Review main page |doi=10.1111/(ISSN)1468-0289 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14680289}}</ref> Economists mostly employed economic theories and econometric applications similar to typical economic papers. As a result, quantification remained central to demographic studies, but slipped behind in political and social history as traditional narrative approaches made a comeback.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kousser |first1=J. Morgan |year=1984 |title=The revivalism of narrative: A response to recent criticisms of quantitative history |url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/81855/1/sswp453.pdf |journal=Social Science History |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=133–149 |doi=10.1017/S0145553200020046 |s2cid=143306892 |access-date=2020-08-28 |archive-date=2020-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124163125/https://authors.library.caltech.edu/81855/1/sswp453.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Recently, as the newest approach in economic history "new history of capitalism" appeared. In the first article of the related journal, Marc Flandreau defined their purpose as "crossing border" to create a truly interdisciplinary field.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Border Crossing by Marc Flandreau |journal=Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics |date=2019 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=1–9 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/743528/pdf |last1=Flandreau |first1=Marc |doi=10.1353/cap.2019.0004 |s2cid=242417622 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

====Latin America====
{{further|Historiography of Colonial Spanish America|Argentina|Latin American studies}}
[[Latin America]] is the former Spanish American empire in the Western Hemisphere plus Portuguese Brazil. Professional historians pioneered the creation of this field, starting in the late nineteenth century.<ref>Howard F. Cline, ''Latin American History: Essays on Its Teaching and Research, 1898–1965''. 2 vols. Austin: University of Texas Press 1967. {{ISBN|978-0292736313}}</ref> The term "Latin America" did not come into general usage until the twentieth century and in some cases it was rejected.<ref>José C. Moya, ed. "Introduction" to ''The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History'', New York: Oxford University Press, p. 5. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195166217.001.0001</ref> The historiography of the field has been more fragmented than unified, with historians of Spanish America and Brazil generally remaining in separate spheres. Another standard division within the historiography is the temporal factor, with works falling into either the early modern period (or "colonial era") or the post-independence (or "national") period, from the early nineteenth onward. Relatively few works span the two eras and few works except textbooks unite Spanish America and Brazil. There is a tendency to focus on histories of particular countries or regions (the Andes, the Southern Cone, the Caribbean) with relatively little comparative work.

Historians of Latin America have contributed to various types of historical writing, but one major, innovative development in Spanish American history is the emergence of [[ethnohistory]], the history of indigenous peoples, especially in Mexico based on alphabetic sources in Spanish or in [[New Philology (Latin America)|indigenous languages]].<ref>Howard F. Cline, ed. ''Handbook of Middle American Indians, Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources'' 4 vols. Austin: University of Texas Press 1972–75. {{ISBN|978-1477306833}}</ref><ref>Charles Gibson, ''The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule''. Stanford: Stanford University Press 1964. {{ISBN|978-0804701969}}</ref><ref>James Lockhart, ''The Nahuas After the Conquest''. Stanford: Stanford University Press 1992. {{ISBN|9780804765572}}</ref><ref>Frank Salomon and Stuart B. Schwartz, eds. ''Cambridge History of Native Peoples of the Americas: South America''. New York: Cambridge University Press 1999. {{ISBN|978-0521630757}}</ref><ref>Richard E.W. Adams and [[Murdo J. MacLeod (historian)|Murdo J. MacLeod]], eds. ''Cambridge History of Natives Peoples of the Americas: Mesoamerica'' 2 vols. New York: Cambridge University Press 2000. {{doi|10.1017/CHOL9780521351652}}</ref>

For the early modern period, the emergence of [[Atlantic history]], based on comparisons and linkages of Europe, the Americas, and Africa from 1450 to 1850 that developed as a field in its own right has integrated early modern Latin American history into a larger framework.<ref>see Bernard Bailyn, ''Atlantic History: Concept and Contours.'' Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 2005. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvjz8180 The development of the field antedates this publication.</ref> For all periods, global or world history have focused on the connections between areas, likewise integrating Latin America into a larger perspective. Latin America's importance to world history is notable but often overlooked. "Latin America's central, and sometimes pioneering, role in the development of globalization and modernity did not cease with the end of colonial rule and the early modern period. Indeed, the region's political independence places it at the forefront of two trends that are regularly considered thresholds of the modern world. The first is the so-called liberal revolution, the shift from monarchies of the ancien régime, where inheritance legitimated political power, to constitutional republics... The second, and related, trend consistently considered a threshold of modern history that saw Latin America in the forefront is the development of nation-states."<ref>Moya, "Introduction: Reclaiming Identity", p. 9.</ref>

Historical research appears in a number of specialized journals. These include ''[[Hispanic American Historical Review]]'' (est. 1918), published by the [[Conference on Latin American History]]; ''The Americas'', (est. 1944); ''[[Journal of Latin American Studies]]'' (1969); ''Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies'', (est.1976)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.can-latam.org/journal |title=The Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies |date=2018-03-06 |access-date=2016-10-08 |archive-date=2016-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017075134/https://www.can-latam.org/journal |url-status=dead}}</ref> ''[[Bulletin of Latin American Research]]'', (est. 1981); ''Colonial Latin American Review'' (1992); and ''Colonial Latin American Historical Review'' (est. 1992). ''[[Latin American Research Review]]'' (est. 1969), published by the [[Latin American Studies Association]], does not focus primarily on history, but it has often published historiographical essays on particular topics.	

'''General works''' on Latin American history have appeared since the 1950s, when the teaching of Latin American history expanded in U.S. universities and colleges.<ref>Howard F. Cline, ed. ''Latin American History: Essays on its Teaching and Research, 1898–1965''. 2 vols. Austin: University of Texas Press 1967.</ref> Most attempt full coverage of Spanish America and Brazil from the conquest to the modern era, focusing on institutional, political, social and economic history. An important, eleven volume treatment of Latin American history is ''The Cambridge History of Latin America'', with separate volumes on the colonial era, nineteenth century, and the twentieth century.<ref>Leslie Bethell, editor. ''The Cambridge History of Latin America'' 11 volumes. New York: Cambridge University Press 1984.</ref> There is a small number of general works that have gone through multiple editions.<ref>Benjamin Keen and Keith Haynes, ''A History of Latin America'' 9th edition. Cengage 2012. {{ISBN|978-0618783182}}</ref><ref>John Charles Chasteen, ''Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America'' 4th edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 2016. {{ISBN|978-0393283051}}</ref><ref>Thomas E. Skidmore and Peter H. Smith, ''Modern Latin America'' 9th edition. New York: Oxford University Press 2013. {{ISBN|978-0190674670}}</ref> Major trade publishers have also issued edited volumes on Latin American history<ref>Thomas H. Holloway, ''A Companion to Latin American History''. Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell 2011. {{ISBN|978-1444338843}}</ref> and historiography.<ref>José C. Moya, ''The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History''. New York: Oxford University Press 2011. {{ISBN|978-0195166217}}</ref> Reference works include the ''[[Handbook of Latin American Studies]]'', which publishes articles by area experts, with annotated bibliographic entries, and the ''Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture''.<ref>Barbara A. Tenenbaum, ed. ''Encyclopedia of Latin American History'' 5 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1996. {{ISBN|978-0684192536}}</ref>

==== Africa ====
{{Main|African historiography}}
Since most African societies [[Oral tradition|recorded their history orally]], written records largely focussed on the actions of outsiders. Historiography in the colonial period was undertaken by European academics and historians from a European perspective, under the pretence of [[Western superiority]] supported by [[scientific racism]]. Oral sources were deprecated and dismissed by unfamiliar historians, giving them the impression Africa had history nor desire to create it.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cooper |first=Frederick |date=2000 |title=Africa's Pasts and Africa's Historians |journal=Canadian Journal of African Studies |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=298–336 |doi=10.2307/486417 |jstor=486417|doi-access=free }}</ref>

[[African historiography]] became organised at the academic level in the mid 20th century.<ref>Manning, 2013, p. 321.</ref> [[Kenneth Dike]], among others, pioneered a new methodology of reconstructing African history using the oral traditions, alongside evidence from European-style histories and other [[Auxiliary sciences of history|historical sciences]].<ref name="Studien-2018">{{Cite web |last=Studien |first=Forum Transregionale |date=2018-07-31 |title=African Historiography and the Challenges of European Periodization: A Historical Comment |url=https://trafo.hypotheses.org/11518 |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research |doi=10.58079/usq7 |language=de-DE}}</ref><ref name="Horakova-2016">{{Cite book |last1=Horáková |first1=Hana |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iqKLDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22general+history+of+africa%22+oral+sources+tradition&pg=PA207 |title=Knowledge Production in and on Africa |last2=Werkman |first2=Katerina |date=2016 |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |isbn=978-3-643-90798-1 |language=en |chapter=African historians and the production of historical knowledge in Africa: Some reflections}}</ref>{{Rp|page=212}} This movement towards utilising oral sources in a multi-disciplinary approach culminated in [[UNESCO]] commissioning the ''[[General History of Africa]]'', edited by specialists drawn from across the African continent, and publishing from 1981 to 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Studien |first=Forum Transregionale |date=2018-07-31 |title=African Historiography and the Challenges of European Periodization: A Historical Comment |url=https://trafo.hypotheses.org/11518 |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research |doi=10.58079/usq7 |language=de-DE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Falola |first1=Toyin |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PQJjYC74tu8C&dq=%22general+history+of+africa%22+oral+sources+tradition&pg=PR11 |title=Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken, Written, Unearthed |last2=Jennings |first2=Christian |date=2003 |publisher=University Rochester Press |isbn=978-1-58046-134-4 |language=en |chapter=Introduction}}</ref>  [[:Category:Historians of Africa|Contemporary historians]] are still tasked with building the institutional frameworks incorporating African [[Epistemology|epistemologies]] and representing an African perspective.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Falola |first=Toyin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9dgBEQAAQBAJ |title=Decolonizing African History |date=2024-04-05 |publisher=African Books Collective |isbn=978-3-906927-51-0 |language=en}}</ref>

====World history====
{{Main|World history (field)}}

[[World history (field)|World history]], as a distinct field of historical study, emerged as an independent academic field in the 1980s. It focused on the examination of history from a global perspective and looked for common patterns that emerged across all cultures. The basic thematic approach of this field was to analyse two major focal points: [[syncretism|integration]]—how processes of world history have drawn people of the world together, and difference—how patterns of world history reveal the diversity of the human experience.

[[Arnold J. Toynbee]]'s ten-volume ''[[A Study of History]]'', took an approach that was widely discussed in the 1930s and 1940s. By the 1960s his work was virtually ignored by scholars and the general public. He compared 26 independent civilizations and argued that they displayed striking parallels in their origin, growth, and decay. He proposed a universal model to each of these civilizations, detailing the stages through which they all pass: genesis, growth, time of troubles, universal state, and disintegration. The later volumes gave too much emphasis on spirituality to satisfy critics.<ref>William H. McNeill, ''Arnold J. Toynbee a Life'' (1989)</ref>

Chicago historian [[William Hardy McNeill|William H. McNeill]] wrote ''[[The Rise of the West]]'' (1965) to show how the separate civilizations of Eurasia interacted from the very beginning of their history, borrowing critical skills from one another, and thus precipitating still further change as adjustment between traditional old and borrowed new knowledge and practice became necessary. He then discusses the dramatic effect of [[Western culture|Western civilization]] on others in the past 500 years of history. McNeill took a broad approach organized around the interactions of peoples across the globe. Such interactions have become both more numerous and more continual and substantial in recent times. Before about 1500, the network of communication between cultures was that of Eurasia. The term for these areas of interaction differ from one world historian to another and include ''world-system'' and ''ecumene''. His emphasis on cultural fusions influenced historical theory significantly.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McNeill |first1=William H. |year=1995 |title=The Changing Shape of World History |journal=History and Theory |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=8–26 |doi=10.2307/2505432 |jstor=2505432 }}</ref>

====The cultural turn====
The "cultural turn" of the 1980s and 1990s affected scholars in most areas of history.<ref>It missed some areas. {{cite journal |last1=Martin |first1=Kevin W. |year=2014 |title=Middle East Historiography: Did We Miss the Cultural Turn? |journal=History Compass |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=178–186 |doi=10.1111/hic3.12142 }}</ref> Inspired largely by anthropology, it turned away from leaders, ordinary people and famous events to look at the use of language and cultural symbols to represent the changing values of society.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Grigor Suny |first1=Ronald |year=2002 |title=Back and Beyond: Reversing the Cultural Turn? |journal=American Historical Review |volume=107 |issue=5 |pages=1476–1499 |doi=10.1086/532855 |jstor=10.1086/532855 }}</ref>

The British historian [[Peter Burke (historian)|Peter Burke]] finds that cultural studies has numerous spinoffs, or topical themes it has strongly influenced. The most important include [[gender studies]] and [[Postcolonialism|postcolonial studies]], as well as memory studies, and [[film studies]].<ref>Peter Burke, ''What is Cultural History? '' (2nd ed. 2008), p. 140 {{ISBN|978-0745644103}}</ref>

Diplomatic historian [[Melvyn P. Leffler]] finds that the problem with the "cultural turn" is that the culture concept is imprecise, and may produce excessively broad interpretations, because it:
{{blockquote|seems infinitely malleable and capable of giving shape to totally divergent policies; for example, to internationalism or isolationism in the United States, and to cooperative internationalism or race hatred in Japan. The malleability of culture suggest to me that in order to understand its effect on policy, one needs also to study the dynamics of political economy, the evolution of the international system, and the roles of technology and communication, among many other variables.<ref>Melvyn P. Leffler, "New Approaches, Old Interpretations, and Prospective Reconfigurations", ''Diplomatic History'' (1995) 19#1 pp. 173–196, quotation at p 185</ref>}}

====Memory studies====
{{See also|Memory studies|l1=|Social memory|Quest for the historical Jesus#Demise of authenticity and call for memory studies|l2=|label 3=Memory studies in historical Jesus research}}

Memory studies is a new field, focused on how nations and groups (and historians) construct and select their memories of the past in order to celebrate (or denounce) key features, thus making a statement of their current values and beliefs.<ref>David Glassberg, "Public History and the Study of Memory" ''The Public Historian'' 18#2 (1996) pp. 7–23; [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3377910 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213101636/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3377910 |date=2020-02-13 }}</ref><ref>David Lowenthal, ''The Past is a Foreign Country'' (1985). {{ISBN|978-0521294805}}</ref> Historians have played a central role in shaping the memories of the past as their work is diffused through popular history books and school textbooks.<ref>S. Berger and C. Lorenz, eds., ''Nationalizing the Past: Historians as Nation Builders in Modern Europe'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). {{ISBN|978-0521294805}}</ref> French sociologist [[Maurice Halbwachs]], opened the field with ''La mémoire collective'' (Paris: 1950).<ref>Translated as ''On collective memory'' (University of Chicago Press, 1992) {{ISBN|978-0226115962}}</ref>

Many historians examine how the memory of the past has been constructed, memorialized or distorted. Historians examine how legends are invented.<ref>Richard Jensen, "'No Irish Need Apply': A Myth of Victimization", ''Journal of Social History'' (2002) 36#2 pp. 405–429 [http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/no-irish.htm online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050208093948/http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/no-irish.htm |date=2005-02-08 }}</ref><ref>Howard Schuman, Barry Schwartz, and Hannah d’Arcy. "Elite Revisionists and Popular Beliefs Christopher Columbus, Hero or Villain?." ''Public Opinion Quarterly'' (2005) 69#1 pp. 2–29 [http://www.barryschwartzonline.com/16406461.PDF online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122223805/http://www.barryschwartzonline.com/16406461.PDF |date=2016-01-22 }}</ref> For example, there are numerous studies of the memory of atrocities from World War II, notably [[the Holocaust]] in Europe and [[Japanese war crimes]] in Asia.<ref>Alon Confino, "Collective memory and cultural history: problems of method." ''American Historical Review'' (1997): 1386–1403. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2171069 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402182304/http://www.jstor.org/stable/2171069 |date=2017-04-02 }}; [http://www.timeandspace.lviv.ua/files/session/confino_108.pdf another copy online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224092024/http://www.timeandspace.lviv.ua/files/session/confino_108.pdf |date=2015-12-24 }}</ref><ref>Case studies are examined in Jeffrey K. Olick, et al. eds. ''The Collective Memory Reader'' (2011) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Fq8R3G-0t9gC excerpt and text search]</ref> British historian Heather Jones argues that the [[World War I#Historiography|historiography of the First World War]] in recent years has been reinvigorated by the cultural turn. Scholars have raised entirely new questions regarding military occupation, radicalization of politics, race, and the male body.<ref>Heather Jones,  "As the centenary approaches: the regeneration of First World War historiography." ''Historical Journal'' (2013) 56#3 pp: 857–878 {{doi|10.1017/S0018246X13000216}}</ref>

Representative of recent scholarship is a collection of studies on the "Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe".<ref>Eric Lagenbacher, Bill Niven and Ruth Wittlinger, eds., ''Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe'' (Berghahn, 2012) 248 pp. [http://www.h-france.net/vol14reviews/vol14no144demossier.pdf online 2014 review in H-France ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924024507/http://www.h-france.net/vol14reviews/vol14no144demossier.pdf |date=2015-09-24 }}</ref> [[SAGE Publishing|Sage]] has published the scholarly journal ''Memory Studies'' since 2008, and the book series "Memory Studies" was launched by [[Palgrave Macmillan]] in 2010 with 5–10 titles a year.<ref>For an overview of the field see Marek Tamm, "Beyond History and Memory: New Perspectives in Memory Studies", ''History Compass'' 11/6 (2013): 458–473 [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hic3.12050/abstract?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921225444/http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hic3.12050/abstract?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false |date=2015-09-21 }}.</ref>

==Scholarly journals==
The historical journal, a forum where academic historians could exchange ideas and publish newly discovered information, came into being in the 19th century. The early journals were similar to those for the physical sciences, and were seen as a means for history to become more professional. The first journal to do this was ''[[Historische Zeitschrift]]'' in Germany in 1859. In France the ''[[Revue des questions historiques]]'' was set up on the model of the ''Historische Zeitschrift'' in 1866,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Larcher |first=Laurent |title=Radiographie de la Revue des questions historiques |url=https://www.entrevues.org/rdr-extrait/radiographie-de-la-revue-des-questions-historiques/ |date=June 1997 |language=en|journal=[[La Revue des revues]] |number=23}}</ref> with the more left wing ''[[Revue historique]]'' starting in reaction ten years later<ref>{{cite book|last=Noronha-DiVanna|first=Isabel|title=Writing History in the Third Republic|year=2010|page=111|publisher=Cambridge Scholars |isbn=9781443820103|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fkUaBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA111}}</ref> and they would continue to duel<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lukacs |first=John |title=Review: Professional History As Myth |journal=Salmagundi |issue=37 |date=Spring 1977 |pages=155–160 |jstor=40547080|author-link=John Lukacs}}</ref> at least until the RQH temporarily stopped publication in 1915.  [[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton|Lord Acton]] wrote about the German historical techniques in the first issue of the [[English Historical Review]] in 1886<ref>{{Cite book|editor-last1=Horn |editor-first1=D. B. |editor-last2=Ransome |editor-first2=Mary |year=1957 |title=English Historical Documents: 1714–1783 |series=English Historical Documents, volume 10 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |page=76 }}</ref> which he helped found, and the [[William and Mary Quarterly]] brought the format to America in 1892.<ref>{{cite web |title=William and Mary Quarterly |url=https://oieahc.wm.edu/publications/wmq/ |website=OIEAHC}}</ref>

Journals also helped historians to establish various historiographical approaches, the most notable example of which was ''[[Annales. Économies, sociétés, civilisations]]'', a publication of the [[Annales school|''Annales'' school]] in France. Journals now typically have one or more editors and associate editors, an editorial board, and a pool of scholars to whom articles that are submitted are sent for confidential evaluation. The editors will send out new books to recognized scholars for reviews that usually run 500 to 1000 words. The vetting and publication process often takes months or longer. Publication in a prestigious journal (which accept 10 percent or fewer of the articles submitted) is an asset in the academic hiring and promotion process. Publication demonstrates that the author is conversant with the scholarly field. Page charges and fees for publication are uncommon in history. Journals are subsidized by universities or historical societies, scholarly associations, and subscription fees from libraries and scholars. Increasingly they are available through library pools that allow many academic institutions to pool subscriptions to online versions. Most libraries have a system for obtaining specific articles through [[inter-library loan]].<ref>Margaret F. Stieg, ''The Origin and Development of Scholarly Historical Periodicals'' (1986) {{ISBN|978-0817351564}}</ref>

===Some major historical journals===
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* 1839 ''[[Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (Brazil)]]''
* 1840 ''[[Historisk Tidsskrift (Denmark)|Historisk tidsskrift]]'' (Denmark)
* 1859 ''[[Historische Zeitschrift]]'' (Germany)<ref>Stieg, ''The Origin and Development of Scholarly Historical Periodicals'' (1986) pp. 20–39 {{ISBN|978-0817351564}}</ref>
* 1866 ''[[Archivum historicum]]'', later ''Historiallinen arkisto'' (Finland, published in Finnish)
* 1866 ''[[Revue des questions historiques]]'', first scholarly historical journal published in France
* 1867 ''[[Századok]]'' (Hungary)
* 1869 ''[[Časopis Matice moravské]]'' (Czech republic&nbsp;– then part of [[Austria-Hungary]])
* 1871 ''[[Historisk tidsskrift (Norway)]]''
* 1876 ''[[Revue Historique]]'' (France)
* 1880 ''[[Svenska Historiska Föreningen|Historisk tidskrift]]'' (Sweden)
* 1886 ''[[English Historical Review]]'' (England)
* 1887 ''[[Kwartalnik Historyczny]]'' (Poland&nbsp;– then part of [[Austria-Hungary]])
* 1892 ''[[William and Mary Quarterly]]'' (US)
* 1894 ''[[Ons Hémecht]]'' (Luxembourg)
* 1895 ''[[American Historical Review]]'' (US)<ref>Stieg, ''The Origin and Development of Scholarly Historical Periodicals'' (1986) {{ISBN|978-0817351564}}</ref>
* 1895 ''[[Český časopis historický]]'' (Czech republic&nbsp;– then part of [[Austria-Hungary]])
* 1914 ''[[Mississippi Valley Historical Review]]'' (renamed in 1964 the ''[[Journal of American History]]'') (US)<ref name="Stieg-1986a">Stieg, ''The Origin and Development of Scholarly Historical Periodicals'' (1986) ch 4 {{ISBN|978-0817351564}}</ref>
* 1915 ''[[The Catholic Historical Review]]'' (US)
* 1916 ''[[The Journal of Negro History]]'' (renamed in 2001 ''[[The Journal of African American History]]'') (US)
* 1916 ''[[Historisk Tidskrift för Finland]]'' (Finland, published in Swedish)
* 1918 ''[[Hispanic American Historical Review]]'' (US)
* 1920 ''[[Canadian Historical Review]]'' (Canada)
* 1922 ''[[Slavonic and East European Review]]'' (SEER), (England)<ref name="Stieg-1986">Stieg, ''The Origin and Development of Scholarly Historical Periodicals'' (1986) pp. 127–147 {{ISBN|978-0817351564}}</ref>
* 1928 ''[[Scandia (journal)|Scandia]]'' (Sweden)
* 1929 ''[[Annales d'histoire économique et sociale]]'' (France)
* 1935 ''[[Journal of Southern History]]'' (US)<ref name="Stieg-1986a"/>
* 1941 ''[[The Journal of Economic History]]'' (US)
* 1944 ''[[The Americas (journal)|The Americas]]'' (US)
* 1951 ''[[Historia Mexicana]]'' (Mexico)
* 1952 ''[[Past & Present (journal)|Past & present: a journal of historical studies]]'' (England)
* 1953 ''[[Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte]]'' (Germany)
* 1954 ''[[Ethnohistory (journal)|Ethnohistory]]'' (US)
* 1956 ''[[Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria]]'' (Nigeria)
* 1957 ''[[Victorian Studies]]'' (US)<ref name="Stieg-1986"/>
* 1960 ''[[Journal of African History]]'' (England)
* 1960 ''[[Technology and Culture|Technology and culture: the international quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology]]'' (US)
* 1960 ''[[History and Theory]]'' (US)
* 1967 ''[[Indian Church History Review]]'' (India) (earlier published as the Bulletin of Church History Association of India)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://churchhistory.in/resources/journals/|title=Journal – Indian Church History Review|access-date=2013-08-20|archive-date=2014-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311041457/http://churchhistory.in/resources/journals/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 1967 ''[[The Journal of Social History]]'' (US)
* 1969 ''[[Journal of Interdisciplinary History]]'' (US)
* 1969 ''[[Journal of Latin American Studies]]'' (UK)
* 1975 ''[[Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Zeitschrift für historische Sozialwissenschaft]]'' (Germany)
* 1975 ''[[Signs (journal)|Signs]]'' (US)
* 1976 ''[[Journal of Family History]]'' (US)
* 1978 ''[[The Public Historian]]'' (US)
* 1981 ''[[Bulletin of Latin American Research]]'' (UK)
* 1982 ''[[Storia della Storiografia]]&nbsp;– History of Historiography&nbsp;– Histoire de l'Historiographie&nbsp;– Geschichte der Geschichtsschreibung''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cisi.unito.it/stor/home.htm |title=Unito.it |publisher=Cisi.unito.it |access-date=2010-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608142120/http://www.cisi.unito.it/stor/home.htm |archive-date=2011-06-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 1982 ''[[Subaltern Studies]]'' ([[Oxford University Press]])
* 1986 ''[[Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts]]'', new title since 2003: ''[http://www.stiftung-sozialgeschichte.de/ Sozial.Geschichte. Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts]'' (Germany)
* 1990 ''[[Gender and History]]'' (US)
* 1990 ''[[Journal of World History]]'' (US)
* 1990 ''[[L'Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/LHOMME/ |title=Univie.ac.at |publisher=Univie.ac.at |access-date=2010-08-28 |archive-date=2016-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527072331/http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/LHOMME/ |url-status=live }}</ref> (Austria)
* 1990 ''[[Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften]]'' (ÖZG)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.univie.ac.at/Wirtschaftsgeschichte/OeZG/ |title=Univie.ac.at |publisher=Univie.ac.at |access-date=2010-08-28 |archive-date=2012-01-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117130456/http://www.univie.ac.at/Wirtschaftsgeschichte/oezg/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1992 ''[[Women's History Review]]''
* 1992 ''[[Colonial Latin American Historical Review]]'' (US)
* 1992 ''[[Colonial Latin American Review]]''
* 1996 ''[[Environmental History (journal)|Environmental History]]'' (US)
* 2011 ''[[International Journal for the Historiography of Education]]''

==Narrative==
According to [[Lawrence Stone]], [[narrative]] has traditionally been the main [[rhetorical device]] used by historians. In 1979, at a time when the new [[Social History]] was demanding a social-science model of analysis, Stone detected a move back toward the narrative. Stone defined narrative as follows: it is organized [[chronological]]ly; it is focused on a single coherent story; it is descriptive rather than analytical; it is concerned with people not abstract circumstances; and it deals with the particular and specific rather than the collective and statistical. He reported that, "More and more of the 'new historians' are now trying to discover what was going on inside people's heads in the past, and what it was like to live in the past, questions which inevitably lead back to the use of narrative."<ref>Lawrence Stone, "The Revival of Narrative: Reflections on a New Old History", ''Past and Present'' 85 (Nov 1979) pp. 3–24, quote on p. 13 {{JSTOR|650677}}. {{Cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/650677 |title=The Revival of Narrative: Reflections on a New Old History |jstor=650677 |access-date=25 April 2023 |archive-date=26 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426032044/https://www.jstor.org/stable/650677 |url-status=bot: unknown |last1=Stone |first1=Lawrence |journal=Past & Present |date=1979 |issue=85 |pages=3–24 |doi=10.1093/past/85.1.3 |url-access=subscription }}.</ref>

Historians committed to a social science approach, however, have criticized the narrowness of narrative and its preference for anecdote over analysis, and its use of clever examples rather than statistically verified empirical regularities.<ref>J. Morgan Kousser, "The Revivalism of Narrative: A Response to Recent Criticisms of Quantitative History", ''Social Science History'' vol. 8, no. 2 (Spring 1984): 133–149; Eric H. Monkkonen, "The Dangers of Synthesis", ''American Historical Review'' 91, no. 5 (December 1986): 1146–1157. {{doi|10.2307/1170990}}.</ref>

==Topics studied==
Some of the common topics in historiography are:

* Reliability of the sources used, in terms of authorship, credibility of the author, and the authenticity or corruption of the text. (See also [[source criticism]].)
* Historiographical tradition or framework. Every historian uses one (or more) historiographical traditions, for example [[Marxist]], [[Annales school|''Annales'' school]], "total history", or [[political history]].
* [[Morality|Moral]] issues, guilt assignment, and praise assignment
* [[Historical revisionism|Revisionism]] versus [[Orthodoxy|orthodox]] interpretations
* Historical [[metanarratives]] and metahistory.<ref>Nikolaĭ Onufrievich Losskiĭ – History of Russian Philosophy 1951. p. 245 "It must not be imagined, however, that history and metahistory are entirely separate: Metahistory is continually present as the background of history. That which is metahistorical breaks up both the cosmic endless sequence of events and..."</ref><ref>The Visva-bharati Quarterly 1956. p. 118  "Sometimes the term Metahistory is also used. But it implies going beyond, a transcendence of history and in this sense it is equated with metaphysics and theology. Sometimes historical time is distinguished from metahistorical eternity."</ref>

==Approaches==
How a historian approaches historical events is one of the most important decisions within historiography. Historians commonly recognise that individual historical facts—dealing with names, dates and places—are not particularly meaningful in themselves. Such facts only become useful/informative when assembled with other historical evidence, and the process of assembling this evidence is understood{{by whom|date=November 2021}} as a particular historiographical approach.

Some influential historiographical approaches include:

* [[Big History]]
* [[Business history]], [[History of institutions]] and [[Official history]]
* [[Black history (disambiguation)|Black history]]<!--Intentional link to DAB page-->
* [[Chronology]]
* [[Comparative history]]
* [[Cultural history]]
* [[Diplomatic history]]
* [[Decolonization of knowledge]]
* [[Economic history]] ([[history of capitalism]]), ([[Business history]]), (financial history)
* [[Environmental history]], a relatively new field
* [[Ethnohistory]]
* [[Gender history]] including [[women's history]], [[family history]], [[feminist history]]
* [[World history (field)|Global history]], or [[World history (field)|World History]]
* [[Global studies]]
* [[Great man theory]] and [[Heroism]]
* [[History of medicine]]
* [[History of religion]] and [[church history]]; the history of theology is usually handled{{by whom|date=November 2021}} under [[theology]]
* [[Indigenous peoples|Indigenous history]]
* [[Industrial history]] and the history of [[technology]]
* [[Intellectual history]] and the [[history of ideas]]
* [[Labor history (discipline)|Labor history]]
* [[Legendary history]] – important in pre-modern contexts
* [[Local history]] and [[microhistory]]
* [[Marxist historiography]] and [[historical materialism]]
* [[Migration studies]]
* [[Military history]], including naval and air history
* [[Mythography|Mythistory]] – history incorporating elements of myth
* [[National history]] – comforting myths of individual peoples
* [[oral tradition|Oral history]] and [[Traditional knowledge]]
* [[Political history]]
* [[Public history]], especially museums and historic preservation
* [[Quantitative history]] ([[prosopography]] using statistics to study biographies)
* [[Historiography of science]] 
* [[Social history]] and [[people's history]]; along with the French version the [[Annales school|''Annales'' school]] and the German [[Bielefeld School]]
* [[Subaltern Studies]], regarding post-colonial India
* [[Urban history]]
** [[American urban history]]
* [[Whig history]], history interpreted as the story of continuous progress
* [[World history (field)|World history]]
* [[Zeitgeist]]

===Related fields===
Important related fields include:
* [[Antiquarian]]ism
* [[Genealogy]]
* [[Historical archaeology]]
* [[Intellectual history]]
* [[Numismatics]]
* [[Paleography]]
* [[Philosophy of history]]
* [[Pseudohistory]]

== See also ==

* [[List of historians by area of study]]
* [[Historical significance]]
* [[National memory]]

===Methods===
* [[Archival research]]
* [[Auxiliary sciences of history]]
* [[Historical method]]
* [[Humanistic historiography]]
* [[List of historians]], inclusive of most major historians
** [[List of historians by area of study]]
* [[List of history journals]]
* [[Philosophy of history]]
* [[Popular history]]
** [[Primary source]]&nbsp;– documents, correspondence, diaries
*** [[Secondary source]]&nbsp;– interpretations, written history
**** [[Tertiary source]]&nbsp;– textbooks and encyclopedias
* [[Periodization]]
* [[Public history]], including museums and historical preservation
* [[Historical revisionism]]
* [[Shared historical authority]]
* [[v:Topic:Historiography|Historiography at Wikiversity]], where it is part of the [[v:School:History|School of History]]

===Topics===
* [[African historiography]]
* [[Historiography of Argentina]]
* [[Atlantic history]]
* [[Historiography of Canada]]
* [[Chinese historiography]]
* [[Historiography of the Cold War]]
* [[Historiography of early Christianity]]
* [[Ethiopian historiography]]
* [[Historiography of the French Revolution]]
** [[Annales school|''Annales'' school]], in France
* [[Historiography of Germany]] 
** [[Bielefeld School]], in Germany
* [[Greek historiography]]
** [[Historiography of Alexander the Great]]
** [[Classics]]
* [[History of India#Historiography]]
** [[Historiography of the fall of the Mughal Empire]]
* Historiography of Islam
** [[Historiography of early Islam]]
* [[Historiography of Japan]]
* [[Historiography of Korea]]
** [[Korean nationalist historiography]]
* [[History of Latin America|Latin American History]]
* [[Middle Ages]]
** [[Historiography of feudalism#Historiography|Historiography of feudalism]]
** [[Dark Ages (historiography)]]
** [[Historiography of the Crusades]]
* [[Historiography and nationalism]]
* [[Roman historiography]] 
** [[Historiography of the fall of the Western Roman Empire]]
* [[Historiography of Switzerland]]
* [[Historiography in the Soviet Union]]
* [[Historiography of the United Kingdom]]
** [[Historiography of Scotland]]
** [[Historiography of the British Empire]]
* [[Historiography of the United States]]
** [[Frontier thesis]]
* [[World history (field)|World history]]
* [[Historiography of the causes of World War I]]
* [[Historiography of World War II]]
** [[Historiography of the Battle of France]], 1940

==References==
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==Bibliography==
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===Theory===
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* Bentley, Michael. ''Modern Historiography: An Introduction'', 1999 {{ISBN|0-415-20267-1}}
* [[Marc Bloch]], ''The Historian's Craft'' (1940)
* [[Peter Burke (historian)|Burke, Peter.]] ''History and Social Theory'', Polity Press, Oxford, 1992
* [[David Cannadine]] (editor), ''What is History Now'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
* [[E. H. Carr]], ''[[What is History?]]'' 1961, {{ISBN|0-394-70391-X}}
* [[R. G. Collingwood]], ''The Idea of History'', 1936, {{ISBN|0-19-285306-6}}
* Deluermoz, Quentin, and [[Singaravélou, Pierre]]: ''A Past of Possibilities: A History of What Could Have Been'' {{ISBN|978-0300227543}} ; Yale University Press, 2021
* Doran, Robert. ed. ''Philosophy of History After Hayden White.'' London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
* [[Geoffrey Elton]], ''[[The Practice of History]]'', 1969, {{ISBN|0-631-22980-9}}
* [[Richard J. Evans]] ''In Defence of History'', 1997, {{ISBN|1-86207-104-7}}
* [[David Hackett Fischer|Fischer, David Hackett.]] ''Historians' Fallacies: Towards a Logic of Historical Thought'', Harper & Row, 1970
* Gardiner, Juliet (ed) ''What is History Today...?'' London: MacMillan Education Ltd., 1988.
* Harlaftis, Gelina, ed. ''The New Ways of History: Developments in Historiography'' (I.B. Tauris, 2010) 260 pp; trends in historiography since 1990
* Hewitson, Mark, ''History and Causality'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
* Jenkins, Keith ed. ''The Postmodern History Reader'' (2006)
* [[Keith Jenkins|Jenkins, Keith.]] ''Rethinking History'', 1991, {{ISBN|0-415-30443-1}}
* [[Arthur Marwick]], ''The New Nature of History: knowledge, evidence, language'', Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001, {{ISBN|0-333-96447-0}}
* [[Alun Munslow|Munslow, Alan]]. ''The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies'' (2000), an encyclopedia of concepts, methods and historians
* [[Diego Olstein|Olstein, Diego]]. ''Thinking History Globally'' (2025), [https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-History-Globally-Diego-Olstein/dp/113747338X summary]
* Spalding, Roger & Christopher Parker, ''Historiography: An Introduction'', 2008, {{ISBN|0-7190-7285-9}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jJVoi3PIejwC|title=A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000 |isbn=978-8125026570|last1=Sreedharan|first1=E.|year=2004 |publisher=Orient Blackswan |access-date=2016-02-13|archive-date=2023-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113175621/https://books.google.com/books?id=jJVoi3PIejwC|url-status=live}}
* {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TG6PXBKwXNMC|title=A Manual of Historical Research Methodology|isbn=978-8190592802|author1=Sreedharan|year=2007 |publisher=South Indian Studies }}
* [[John Tosh|Tosh, John.]] ''The Pursuit of History'', 2002, {{ISBN|0-582-77254-0}}
* Tucker, Aviezer, ed. ''A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography'' Malden: Blackwell, 2009
* White, Hayden. ''The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957–2007'', Johns Hopkins, 2010. Ed. Robert Doran

===Guides to scholarship===
* ''The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature'', ed. by Mary Beth Norton and Pamela Gerardi (3rd ed. 2 vol, Oxford U.P. 1995) 2064 pages; annotated guide to 27,000 of the most important English language history books in all fields and topics [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.06298 vol 1 online], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.06298 vol 2 online]
** Allison, William Henry et al. eds. ''A guide to historical literature'' (1931) comprehensive bibliography for scholarship to 1930 as selected by scholars from the American Historical Association [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.74271 online edition, free]; 
* Backhouse, Roger E. and Philippe Fontaine, eds. ''A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014) pp. ix, 248; essays on the ways in which the histories of psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, history, and political science have been written since 1945
* Black, Jeremy. ''Clio's Battles: Historiography in Practice'' (Indiana University Press, 2015.) xvi, 323 pp. 
* Boyd, Kelly, ed. ''Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writers'' (2 Vol 1999), 1600 pp covering major historians and themes
* Cline, Howard F. ed. ''Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Handbook of Middle American Indians'' (4 vols U of Texas Press 1973.
* Gray, Wood. ''Historian's Handbook'', 2nd ed. (Houghton-Mifflin Co., cop. 1964), vii, 88 pp; a primer
* Elton, G.R. ''Modern Historians on British History 1485–1945: A Critical Bibliography 1945–1969'' (1969), annotated guide to 1000 history books on every major topic, plus book reviews and major scholarly articles. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176158 online]
* Loades, David, ed. ''Reader's Guide to British History'' (Routledge; 2 vol 2003) 1760 pp; highly detailed guide to British historiography [https://books.google.com/books?id=AYEYAQAAIAAJ excerpt and text search]
* {{cite Q|Q26157365 }}<!--  Inaugural Lecture on The Study of History -->
* Parish, Peter, ed. ''Reader's Guide to American History'' (Routledge, 1997), 880 pp; detailed guide to historiography of American topics [https://books.google.com/books?id=DnQTAXf4NuIC excerpt and text search]
* Popkin, Jeremy D. ''From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography'' (Oxford UP, 2015).
* [[Daniel Woolf|Woolf, Daniel]] et al. ''[[The Oxford History of Historical Writing]]'' (5 vol 2011–r12), covers all major historians since AD&nbsp;600 
** ''The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600'' online at {{doi|10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199218158.001.0001}}
** ''The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 3: 1400–1800'' online at {{doi|10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199219179.001.0001}}
** ''The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 4: 1800–1945'' online at {{doi|10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199533091.001.0001}}

===Histories of historical writing===
* Arnold, John H. ''History: A Very Short Introduction'' (2000). New York: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0192853523}}
* Barnes, Harry Elmer. ''A history of historical writing'' (1962)
* Barraclough, Geoffrey. ''History: Main Trends of Research in the Social and Human Sciences'', (1978)
* Bauer, Stefan. ''The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform'' (Oxford University Press, 2020).
* Bentley, Michael. ed., ''Companion to Historiography'', Routledge, 1997, {{ISBN|0415285577}}, 39 chapters by experts
* Boyd, Kelly, ed. ''Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing'' (2 vol. Taylor & Francis, 1999), 1562 pp
* Breisach, Ernst. ''Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern'', 3rd ed., 2007, {{ISBN|0-226-07278-9}}
* Budd, Adam, ed. ''The Modern Historiography Reader: Western Sources.'' (Routledge, 2009).
* Cline, Howard F., ed.''Latin American History: Essays on Its Study and Teaching, 1898–1965''. 2 vols. Austin: University of Texas Press 1965.
* Cohen, H. Floris ''The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry'', (1994), {{ISBN|0-226-11280-2}}
* Conrad, Sebastian. ''The Quest for the Lost Nation: Writing History in Germany and Japan in the American Century'' (2010)
* Crymble, Adam. ''Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age'' (University of Illinois, 2021), 241 pp
* Fitzsimons, M.A. et al. eds. ''The development of historiography'' (1954) 471 pages; comprehensive global coverage; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.183464 online free]
* Gilderhus, Mark T. ''History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction'', 2002, {{ISBN|0-13-044824-9}}
* Iggers, Georg G. ''Historiography in the 20th Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge'' (2005)
* Kramer, Lloyd, and Sarah Maza, eds. ''A Companion to Western Historical Thought'' Blackwell 2006. 520 pp; {{ISBN|978-1-4051-4961-7}}.
* [[Arnaldo Momigliano|Momigliano, Arnaldo]]. ''The Classical Foundation of Modern Historiography'', 1990, {{ISBN|978-0-226-07283-8}}
* ''The Oxford History of Historical Writing'' (5 vol 2011), Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600; Volume 2: 600–1400; Volume 3: 1400–1800; Volume 4: 1800–1945; Volume 5: Historical Writing since 1945 [https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/o/oxford-history-of-historical-writing-ohhw/?cc=us&lang=en& catalog]
* Rahman, M. M. ed. ''Encyclopaedia of Historiography'' (2006) [https://books.google.com/books?id=1BhtHVHgnwAC Excerpt and text search]
* [[Reba Soffer|Soffer, Reba]]. ''History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan'' (2009) [https://www.amazon.com/History-Historians-Conservatism-Britain-America/dp/0199208115/  excerpt and text search]
* Thompson, James Westfall. ''A History of Historical Writing. vol 1: From the earliest Times to the End of the 17th Century'' (1942); ''A History of Historical Writing. vol 2: The 18th and 19th Centuries'' (1942)
* Woolf, Daniel, ed. ''A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing'' (2 vol. 1998)
* Woolf, Daniel. "Historiography", in ''New Dictionary of the History of Ideas'', ed. M.C. Horowitz, (2005), vol. I.
* Woolf, Daniel. ''A Global History of History'' (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
* Woolf, Daniel, ed. ''The Oxford History of Historical Writing''. 5 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2011–12)
* Woolf, Daniel, ''A Concise History Of History'' (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

===Feminist historiography===
* Bonnie G. Smith, ''The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice'', [[Harvard University Press]] 2000
* [[Gerda Lerner]], ''The Majority Finds its Past: Placing Women in History'', New York: [[Oxford University Press]] 1979
* Judith M. Bennett, ''History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism'', [[University of Pennsylvania Press]], 2006
* Julie Des Jardins, ''Women and the Historical Enterprise in America'', [[University of North Carolina Press]], 2002
* Donna Guy, "Gender and Sexuality in Latin America" in ''[[Oxford Handbook of Latin American History|The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History]]'', José C. Moya, ed. New York: Oxford University Press 2011, pp.&nbsp;367–381.
* Asunción Lavrin, "Sexuality in Colonial Spanish America" in ''The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History'', José C. Moya, ed. New York: Oxford University Press 2011, pp.&nbsp;132–154.
* [[Mary Ritter Beard]], ''Woman as force in history: A study in traditions and realities''
* Mary Spongberg, ''Writing women's history since the Renaissance'', [[Palgrave Macmillan]], 2002
* Clare Hemmings, "Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory", [[Duke University Press]] 2011

===National and regional studies===
* Berger, Stefan et al., eds. ''Writing National Histories: Western Europe Since 1800'' (1999) [https://www.amazon.com/Writing-National-Histories-Western-Europe/dp/0415164265/ excerpt and text search]; how history has been used in Germany, France & Italy to legitimize the nation-state against socialist, communist and Catholic internationalism
* Iggers, Georg G. ''A new Directions and European Historiography'' (1975)
* LaCapra, Dominic, and Stephen L. Kaplan, eds. ''Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspective'' (1982)

====Asia and Africa====
* {{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/456728837 |title=Preview of Discovering history in China: American historical writing on the recent Chinese past [WorldCat.org] |oclc=456728837|last=Cohen|first= Paul|publisher= Columbia University Press - Studies of the East Asian Institute|year= 1984|isbn=023152546X}} 
* [[R.C. Majumdar]], Historiography in Modem India (Bombay, 1970) {{ISBN|978-2102227356}}
* Marcinkowski, M. Ismail. ''Persian Historiography and Geography: Bertold Spuler on Major Works Produced in Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia, India and Early Ottoman Turkey'' (Singapore: Pustaka Nasional, 2003)
* Martin, Thomas R. ''Herodotus and Sima Qian: The First Great Historians of Greece and China: A Brief History with Documents'' (2009)
* E. Sreedharan, A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000 (2004)
* [[Arvind Sharma]], Hinduism and Its Sense of History (Oxford University Press, 2003) {{ISBN|978-0-19-566531-4}}
* Shourie, Arun (2014). Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : HarperCollins Publishers. {{ISBN|978-9351365914}}
* Yerxa, Donald A. ''Recent Themes in the History of Africa and the Atlantic World: Historians in Conversation'' (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/Recent-Themes-History-Africa-Atlantic/dp/1570037574/  excerpt and text search]

====Britain====
* Bann, Stephen. ''Romanticism and the Rise of History'' (Twayne Publishers, 1995)
* Bentley, Michael. ''Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870–1970'' (2006) [https://www.amazon.com/Modernizing-Englands-Past-Historiography-Modernism/dp/0521602661/  excerpt and text search]
* Cannadine, David. ''In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Passed in Modern Britain'' (2003)
* Furber, Elizabeth, ed. ''Changing Views on British History; Essays on Historical Writing Since 1939'' (1966); 418pp; essays by scholars
* {{cite journal |last1=Goldstein |first1=Doris S. |year=1986 |title=The origins and early years of the English Historical Review |journal=English Historical Review |volume=101 |issue=398|pages=6–19 |doi=10.1093/ehr/ci.cccxcviii.6 |doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Goldstein |first1=Doris S. |year=1982 |title=The Organizational Development of the British Historical Profession, 1884–1921 |journal=Historical Research |volume=55 |issue=132 |pages=180–193 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-2281.1982.tb01157.x }}
* Hale, John Rigby, ed. ''The evolution of British historiography: from Bacon to Namier'' (1967).
* Hexter, J. H. ''On Historians: Reappraisals of some of the makers of modern history'' (1979); covers Carl Becker, Wallace Ferguson, Fernan Braudel, Lawrence Stone, Christopher Hill, and J.G.A. Pocock
* Howsam, Leslie. "Academic Discipline or Literary Genre?: The Establishment of Boundaries in Historical Writing". ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 32.02 (2004): 525–545. [https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://en.wikipedia.org/&httpsredir=1&article=1002&context=historypub online]
* Jann, Rosemary. ''The Art and Science of Victorian History'' (1985)
* Jann, Rosemary. "From Amateur to Professional: The Case of the Oxbridge Historians". ''Journal of British Studies'' (1983) 22#2 pp: 122–147.
* Kenyon, John. ''The History Men: The Historical Profession in England since the Renaissance'' (1983)
* Loades, David. ''Reader's Guide to British History'' (2 vol. 2003) 1700pp; 1600-word-long historiographical essays on about 1000 topics
* Mitchell, Rosemary. ''Picturing the Past: English History in Text and Image 1830–1870'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000)
* Philips, Mark Salber. ''Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740–1820'' (Princeton University Press, 2000).
* Richardson, Roger Charles, ed. ''The debate on the English Revolution'' (2nd ed. Manchester University Press, 1998)
* Schlatter, Richard, ed. ''Recent Views on British History: Essays on Historical Writing Since 1966'' (1984) 525 pp; 13 topics essays by scholars

=====British Empire=====
* Berger, Carl. ''Writing Canadian History: Aspects of English Canadian Historical Writing since 1900'', (2nd ed. 1986)
* Bhattacharjee, J. B. ''Historians and Historiography of North East India'' (2012)
* Davison, Graeme. ''The Use and Abuse of Australian History'' (2000)
* Farrell, Frank. ''Themes in Australian History: Questions, Issues and Interpretation in an Evolving Historiography'' (1990)
* Gare, Deborah. "Britishness in Recent Australian Historiography", ''The Historical Journal'', Vol. 43, No. 4 (Dec., 2000), pp.&nbsp;1145–1155 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3020885 in JSTOR]
* [[Ranajit Guha|Guha, Ranajiit]]. ''Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India'' (Harvard UP, 1998)
* [[Jack Granatstein|Granatstein, J. L.]] ''[[Who Killed Canadian History?]]'' (1998)
*  Mittal, S. C ''India distorted: A study of British historians on India'' (1995), on 19th century writers
* Saunders, Christopher. ''The making of the South African past: major historians on race and class'', (1988)
* Winks, Robin, ed. ''The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography'' (2001)

====France====
{{Further|Historiography of France}}
* Burke, Peter. ''The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School 1929–2014'' (John Wiley & Sons, 2015).
* {{cite journal |last1=Clark |first1=Stuart |year=1983 |title=French historians and early modern popular culture |journal=Past & Present |issue=100 |pages=62–99 |doi=10.1093/past/100.1.62 }}
* Daileader, Philip and Philip Whalen, eds. ''French Historians 1900–2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France'' (2010) 40 long essays by experts. [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=dCXSFsYi0AgC excerpt]
* Revel, Jacques, and Lynn Hunt, eds. ''Histories: French Constructions of the Past'', (1995). 654pp; 65 essays by French historians
* Stoianovich, Traian. ''French Historical Method: The Annales Paradigm'' (1976)

====Germany====
{{Further|Historiography of Germany|Bielefeld School}}
* Fletcher, Roger. "Recent developments in West German Historiography: the Bielefeld School and its critics". ''German Studies Review'' (1984): 451–480. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1428885 in JSTOR]
* Hagemann, Karen, and Jean H. Quataert, eds. ''Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography'' (2008)
* Iggers, Georg G. ''The German Conception of History: The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present'' (2nd ed. 1983)
* Rüger, Jan, and Nikolaus Wachsmann, eds. ''Rewriting German history: new perspectives on modern Germany'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137347794_1#page-1 excerpt]
* Sheehan, James J. "What is German history? Reflections on the role of the nation in German history and historiography". ''Journal of Modern History'' (1981): 2–23. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1877062 in JSTOR]
* Sperber, Jonathan. "Master Narratives of Nineteenth-century German History". ''Central European History'' (1991) 24#1: 69–91. [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/central-european-history/article/abs/master-narratives-of-nineteenthcentury-german-history/1667F63BD234B470FBD0B82DDDF8AB67 online]
* Stuchtey, Benedikt, and Peter Wende, eds. ''British and German historiography, 1750–1950: traditions, perceptions, and transfers'' (2000).

====Latin America====
* Adelman, Jeremy, ed. ''Colonial Legacies''. New York: Routledge 1999.
* Coatsworth, John. "Cliometrics and Mexican History", ''Historical Methods''18:1 (Winter 1985)31–37.
* {{cite journal |last1=Gootenberg |first1=Paul |year=2004 |title=Between a Rock and a Softer Place: Reflections on Some Recent Economic History of Latin America |journal=[[Latin American Research Review]] |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=239–257 |doi=10.1353/lar.2004.0031 |s2cid=144339079 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Kuzensof |last2=Oppenheimer |first2=Robert |year=1985 |title=The Family and Society in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: An Historiographical Introduction |journal=[[Journal of Family History]] |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=215–234 |doi=10.1177/036319908501000301 |s2cid=145607701 }}
* Lockhart, James. "The Social History of Early Latin America". ''[[Latin American Research Review]]'' 1972.
* Moya, José C. ''The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History''. New York: Oxford University Press 2011.
* {{cite journal |last1=Russell-Wood |first1=A. J. R. |year=2001 |title=Archives and the Recent Historiography on Colonial Brazil |journal=[[Latin American Research Review]] |volume=36 |pages=175–103 |doi=10.1017/S0023879100018847 |s2cid=252750152 |doi-access=free}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Van Young |first1=Eric |year=1999 |title=The New Cultural History Comes to Old Mexico |journal=[[The Hispanic American Historical Review]] |volume=79 |issue=2 |pages=211–248 |doi=10.1215/00182168-79.2.211 |doi-access=free }}

====United States====
* Hofstadter, Richard. ''The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington'' (1968)
* [[Peter Novick|Novick, Peter.]] ''That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession'' (1988), {{ISBN|0-521-34328-3}}
* Palmer, William W. "All Coherence Gone? A Cultural History of Leading History Departments in the United States, 1970–2010", ''Journal of The Historical Society'' (2012), 12: 111–153. {{doi|10.1111/j.1540-5923.2012.00360.x}}
* Palmer, William. ''Engagement with the Past: The Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians'' (2001)
* Parish, Peter J., ed. ''Reader's Guide to American History'' (1997), historiographical overview of 600 topics
* Wish, Harvey. ''The American Historian'' (1960), covers pre-1920

===Themes, organizations, and teaching===
* Carlebach, Elishiva, et al. eds. ''Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi'' (1998) [https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-History-Memory-Yerushalmi-Institute/dp/0874518717/ excerpt and text search]
* Charlton, Thomas L. ''History of Oral History: Foundations and Methodology'' (2007)
* Darcy, R. and Richard C. Rohrs, ''A Guide to Quantitative History'' (1995)
* [[Dawidowicz, Lucy S.]] ''The Holocaust and Historians''. (1981).
* Ernest, John. ''Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794–1861''. (2004)
* Evans, Ronald W. ''The Hope for American School Reform: The Cold War Pursuit of Inquiry Learning in Social Studies''(Palgrave Macmillan; 2011) 265 pages
* [[Marc Ferro|Ferro, Marc]], ''Cinema and History'' (1988)
* Green, Anna, and Kathleen Troup. ''The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth Century History and Theory''. 2 ed. Manchester University Press, 2016.
* [[Pat Hudson|Hudson, Pat]]. ''History by Numbers: An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches'' (2002)
*[[Jarzombek, Mark]], ''A Prolegomenon to Critical Historiography,'' Journal of Architectural Education 52/4 (May 1999): 197-206 [https://www.markjarzombekprofile.com/_files/ugd/cc6e57_cfb1b2d86f7745d1aad8a1c3ce909a56.pdf]
* Keita, Maghan. ''Race and the Writing of History''. Oxford UP (2000)
* Leavy, Patricia. ''Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research'' (2011) [https://www.amazon.com/Oral-History-Understanding-Qualitative-Research/dp/0195395093/ excerpt and text search]
* [[Loewen, James W.]] ''[[Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong]]'', (1996)
*[[Patrick Manning (professor)|Manning, Patrick]], ed. ''World History: Global And Local Interactions'' (2006)
* Maza, Sarah. ''Thinking About History''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. {{doi|10.7208/chicago/9780226109473.001.0001}}
* Meister, Daniel R. "The biographical turn and the case for historical biography" ''History Compass'' (Dec. 2017) {{doi|10.1111/hic3.12436}} [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hic3.12436/abstract?campaign=wolearlyview abstract]
* [[Morris-Suzuki, Tessa]]. ''The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History'' (2005), {{ISBN|1-85984-513-4}}
* [[Ritchie, Donald A.]] ''The Oxford Handbook of Oral History'' (2010) [https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Handbook-Oral-History-Handbooks/dp/019533955X/ excerpt and text search]
* [[Tröhler, Daniel]] "History and Historiography. Approaches to Historical Research in Education" T. Fitzgerald (ed.), ''Handbook of Historical Studies in Education'' (2019); [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336511356_History_and_Historiography_Approaches_to_Historical_Research_in_Education_Introduction_to_the_section_Foundations_and_directions_of_the_International_Handbook_of_Historical_Studies_in_Education_Debate]

==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071018074814/http://historiographyinternational.org/ International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography]
* [https://www.activehistory.co.uk/historiography/Historiographical_Terms.pdf] short guide to Historiographical terms
* [https://shsulibraryguides.org/historiography Basic guide to historiography research for undergraduates]
* [http://www.fupress.net/index.php/cromohs/index ''Cromohs''&nbsp;– cyber review of modern historiography open-access electronic scholarly journal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023024022/http://fupress.net/index.php/cromohs/index |date=2019-10-23 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110608142120/http://www.cisi.unito.it/stor/home.htm ''History of Historiography'' scholarly journal in several languages]

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