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'''Historiography''' studies the processes by which historical knowledge is obtained and transmitted. Broadly speaking, historiography examines the writing of [[history]] and the use of [[historical method]]s, drawing upon such elements such as authorship, sourcing, interpretation, style, bias, and audience. The word historiography can also refer to a body of historical work. As the tools of historical investigation have changed over time and space, the term itself bears multiple meanings and is not readily associated with a single all-encompassing definition.
Historiography is often broken down topically, such as "Historiography of Islam" or "Historiography of China". There are many approaches or genres of history, such as [[oral history]] and [[social history]]. Beginning in the 19th century with the rise of academic historians a corpus of literature related to historiography has come into existence, with classic works such as [[E. H. Carr]]'s, ''[[What is History?]]'' (1961) and [[Hayden White]]'s ''[[Metahistory]]'' (1974).<!--NOTE: [[WP:LEAD]] is a summary of the article contents. It should reflect what is written below, in summary format. -->
== Defining historiography ==
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There are two basic issues involved in historiography. (Breisach, 1994) First, the study of the development of history as an academic discipline over time, as well as its development in different cultures and epochs. Second, the study of the academic tools, methods and approaches that have been and are being used, including the [[historical method]].
The term "historiography" can also be used to refer to a specific body of historical writing that was written during a specific time concerning a specific issue. For instance, a statement about "medieval historiography" would refer to some issue in the ''academic discipline'' of Medieval History, and not to the ''actual history'' of the Middle Ages or to historical works ''written in that time'' (e.g., "during the last century, medieval historiography changed its focus from the study of political events to social and mental structures", or "medieval historiography has largely benefited from the recognition of the importance of parish records": that is, the discipline underwent some change).
[[Conal Furay]] and [[Michael J. Salevouris]] define historiography as "the study of the way history has been and is written — the history of historical writing... 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>(''The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide'', 1988, p. 223, ISBN 0-88295-982-4)</ref> One should be cautious, however, that in the sense given in the previous paragraph when a historian ''does'' historiography they are actually studying "the events of the past directly".
==Questions studied ==
Some of the common questions of 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, some of which are Marxist, or [[Annales School]], ("total history"), [[political history]], etc.
#Moral issues, guilt assignment, and praise assignment
#Revisionism versus orthodox interpretations
#Historical [[Metanarratives]]
Issues engaged by [[critical historiography]] includes topics such as:
*What constitutes a historical "event"?
*In what modes does a historian write and produce statements of "truth" and "fact"?
*How does the medium (novel, textbook, film, theatre, comic) through which historical information is conveyed influence its meaning?
**What inherent [[epistemological]] problems does archive-based history possess?
*How do historians establish their own objectivity or come to terms with their own subjectivity?
*What is the relationship between historical theory and historical practice?
*What is the "goal" of history?
*What does history teach us?
==The history of written history==
Understanding the past appears to be a universal human need and the telling of history has emerged independently in civilisations around the world. [[philosophy of history|What constitutes history is a philosophical question]]. For the purposes of this survey it is written history recorded in a narrative format for the purpose of informing future generations about events. The earliest critical historical thought emerged in Greece, a development which would be an important influence on the writing of history elsewhere in the world.
=== Hellenic world ===
[[Image:Thucydides Manuscript.jpg|thumb|upright|Reproduction of part of a Tenth-century copy of [[Thucydides]]'s [[History of the Peloponnesian War]]]]
Written history appeared first with the ancient Greeks, whose historians greatly contributed to the development of historical methodology. The very first historical works were ''[[Histories (Herodotus)|The Histories]]'' composed by [[Herodotus|Herodotus of Halicarnassus]] (484 BC–ca.425 BC), who became later known as the 'father of history' (Cicero). Herodotus attempted to distinguish between more and less reliable accounts, and personally conducted research by travelling extensively, giving written accounts of various [[Mediterranean Basin|Mediterranean]] cultures. 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.
[[Thucydides]], on the other hand, largely eliminated divine causality in his account of the war between Athens and Sparta, establishing a rationalistic element which became defining of subsequent Western historical writings. He was also the first to distinguish between cause and immediate origins of an event, while his successor [[Xenophon]] (ca. 431–355 BC) introduced autobiographical elements and character studies in his [[Anabasis]].
The proverbial [[Philippic]] attacks of the Athenian orator [[Demosthenes]] (384-322 BC) on [[Philip II of Macedon]] marked the height of ancient political agitation. The now lost history of Alexander's campaigns by the [[diadoch]] [[Ptolemy I]] (367-283 BC) may represent the first historical work composed by a ruler. [[Polybius]] (ca. 203–120 BC) wrote on the rise of Rome to world prominence, trying to harmonize the Greek and Roman point of views.
The [[Chaldean]] priest [[Berossus]] (fl. 3rd century) composed a Greek-language ''History of [[Babylonia]]'' for the [[Seleucid]] king [[Antiochus 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 composed by the Phoenician historian [[Sanchuniathon]]; but his very existence is considered semi-fabled 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]].
=== Roman world ===
{{main|Roman historiography}}
The Romans adopted the Greek tradition, becoming the first European people to write history in a non-Greek language. While early Roman works were still written in Greek, the Latin ''Origines'', composed by the Roman statesman [[Cato the Elder]] (234–149 BC) in a conscious effort to counteract the Greek cultural influence, marked the beginning of Latin historical writings. Hailed for its lucid style, [[Julius Caesar]]'s (100 BC–44 BC) ''[[Commentarii de Bello Gallico|Bellum Gallicum]]'' may represent the earliest autobiographical war coverage.{{Fact|date=July 2008}} The politician and orator [[Cicero]] (106–43 BC) introduced rhetorical elements in his political writings.
[[Strabo]] (63 BC–ca. AD 24) was a main exponent of the Greco-Roman tradition of combining geography with history, presenting a descriptive history of peoples and places known to his era. [[Livy]] (59 BC–AD 17) records the rise of [[Roman Empire|Rome]] from city-state to world dominion. His inquiry into the question of what would have happened if [[Alexander the Great]] had marched against Rome represents the first known instance of [[alternate history]].<ref>[http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/Livy09.html Livy's History of Rome: Book 9]</ref>
Biography, although popular throughout antiquity, was introduced as a branch of history by the works of [[Plutarch]] (c. 46 - 127) and [[Suetonius]] (c. 69-after 130) who described the deeds and characters of ancient personalities, stressing their human side. [[Tacitus]] (c. 56–c. 117) denounces Roman immorality by praising [[Germanic peoples|German]] virtues, elaborating on the topos of the [[Noble savage]].
===Early Christian===
The growth of [[Christianity]] and its increased status in the Roman Empire after [[Constantine I]] led to the development of a distinct Christian historiography, influenced by both Christian theology and the nature of the Bible, encompassing new areas of study and views of history. The central role of the Bible in Christianity is reflected in the preference Christian historians had for written sources compared to the classical historians' preference for oral sources and in the inclusion of politically unimportant people, development of Religion and society. This can be seen in the extensive inclusion of written sources in ''Ecclesiastical History'' written by [[Eusebius of Caesarea]] circa 324 and in the subjects it deals with.<ref name = "sxixkf">[http://www.cuw.edu/Academics/programs/history/historiography.html ''Historiography''], Concordia University Wisconsin , retrieved on [[02 November]] [[2007]]</ref> Christian [[Christian theology|theology]] led a view of time as linear, progressing according to God's 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 start of the period the work was dealing with.<ref>Warren, John (1998). ''The past and its presenters: an introduction to issues in historiography'', Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 0-340-67934-4, p. 67-68.</ref>
===Medieval Europe===
[[Image:Beda Petersburgiensis f3v.jpg|right|upright|thumb|A page of [[Bede]]'s ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'']]
Writing history was popular among Christian monks and clergy in the [[Middle Ages]]. They wrote about the history of Jesus Christ, the Church and of their patrons, the dynastic history of the local rulers. In the [[early medieval|Early Middles Ages]] historical writing often took the form of [[annals]] or [[chronicles]] 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, p. 78-79.</ref> An example of this type of writing are [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]s which were the work of several different writers and start during the reign of [[Alfred the Great]] in the late 9th century and one copy of which was still being updated in 1154. Some writers in the period did construct a more [[narrative]] form of history including [[Gregory of Tours]] and more successfully [[Bede]] who wrote both [[secular]] and [[ecclesiastical]] history and is known for writing ''[[Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]''.<ref name = "sxixkf"/>
History was written about states or nations during the [[Renaissance]]. The study of history changed during the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] and [[Romanticism]]. [[Voltaire]] described the history of certain ages that were important according to him, instead of describing events in a chronological order. History became an independent discipline. It was not called ''philosophia historiae'' anymore, but merely history (''historia'').
===China===
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In [[China]], [[Sima Qian]] (around 100 BC) was the first to lay the groundwork for professional historical writing. His written work was the [[Shiji]] ([[Records of the Grand Historian]]), a monumental lifelong achievement in literature. Its scope extends as far back as the 16th century BC, including many treatises on specific subjects, along with individual biographies for prominent people, as well as exploring the lives and deeds of commoners found in his own time or in previous eras. His work influenced every subsequent author of history in China, including the prestigious Ban family of the [[Eastern Han Dynasty]] era.
Traditionalist Chinese historiography describes history in terms of dynastic cycles. 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.
[[Image:Shiji.jpg|upright|thumb|right|First page of the ''Shiji'']]
===Islamic world===
{{main|Historiography of early Islam}}
The first detailed studies on the subject of historiography itself and the first critiques on [[historical method]]s appeared in the works of the [[Arab]] [[Muslim]] historian and historiographer [[Ibn Khaldun]] (1332-1406), who wrote historiographical writings in the ''[[Muqaddimah]]'' ([[Latin]]ized as ''Prolegomena'') and ''Kitab al-I'bar'' (''Book of Advice'').<ref>S. Ahmed (1999). ''A Dictionary of Muslim Names''. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. ISBN 1850653569.</ref> Among many other things, his ''Muqaddimah'' laid the groundwork for the observation of the role of [[state]], [[communication]], [[propaganda]] and [[systematic bias]] in history,<ref>H. Mowlana (2001). "Information in the Arab World", ''Cooperation South Journal'' '''1'''.</ref> and he discussed the rise and fall of [[civilization]]s.
[[Muslim]] historical writings first began developing earlier from the 7th century with the reconstruction of [[Muhammad]]'s life in the centuries following his death. Due to 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]]. [[Egyptology]] began in [[History of Arab Egypt|Arab Egypt]] from the 9th century, with the first known attempts at deciphering [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]] made by [[Dhul-Nun al-Misri]] and [[Ibn Wahshiyya]]. [[Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari]] (838-923) is known for writing a detailed and comprehensive chronicle of [[History of the Mediterranean region|Mediterranean]] and [[History of the Middle East|Middle Eastern]] history in his ''[[History of the Prophets and Kings]]'' in 915.
Until the 10th century, history most often meant political and military history, but this was not so with [[Persian people|Persian]] historian [[Abu-Rayhan Biruni|Biruni]] (973-1048). In his ''Kitab fi Tahqiq ma l'il-Hind'' (''Researches on India''), he did not record political and military history in any detail, but wrote more on [[India (disambiguation)|India]]'s [[Culture of India|cultural]], [[Science and technology in ancient India|scientific]], social and [[Religion in India|religious]] history. He also discussed more on his idea of history in another work ''The Chronology of the Ancient Nations''.<ref>M. S. Khan (1976). "al-Biruni and the Political History of India", ''Oriens'' '''25''', p. 86-115.</ref> Biruni is considered the father of [[Indology]] for his detailed studies on [[History of India|Indian history]].<ref>Zafarul-Islam Khan, [http://milligazette.com/Archives/15-1-2000/Art5.htm At The Threshhold (sic) Of A New Millennium – II], ''The Milli Gazette''.</ref> Other famous Muslim historians included [[Urwah ibn Zubayr|Urwah]] (d. 712), [[Wahb ibn Munabbih]] (d. 728), [[Ibn Ishaq]] (d. 761), [[al-Waqidi]] (745-822), [[Ibn Hisham]] (d. 834), and [[Ibn Hajar Asqalani|Ibn Hajar]] (1372-1449), among others.
[[Franz Rosenthal]] wrote in the ''History of Muslim Historiography'':
{{quote|"Muslim historiography has at all times been united by the closest ties with the general development of scholarship in Islam, and the position of historical knowledge in Muslim education has exercised a decisive influence upon the intellectual level of historical writing....The Muslims achieved a definite advance beyond previous historical writing in the [[sociology|sociological]] understanding of [[history]] and the systematisation of historiography. The development of modern historical writing seems to have gained considerably in speed and substance through the utilization of a [[Islamic literature|Muslim Literature]] which enabled western historians, from the seventeenth century on, to see a large section of the world through foreign eyes. The Muslim historiography helped indirectly and modestly to shape present day historical thinking."<ref>[http://members.tripod.com/~salems2/historiography.htm Historiography]. The Islamic Scholar.</ref>}}
===Modern era===
Modern historiography began with [[Ranke]] in the 19th century, who was very critical on the sources used in history. He was opposed to analyses and rationalizations. His adagium was writing history the way it was. He wanted [[Textual criticism|eyewitness]] accounts and wanted an emphasis on the point of view of the eyewitness. [[Hegel]] and [[Karl Marx|Marx]] introduced the change of society in history. Former historians had focused on cyclical events of the rise and decline of rulers and nations. A new discipline, [[sociology]], emerged in the late nineteenth century that analyzed and compared these perspectives on a larger scale.
The French [[Annales School]] radically changed history during the 20th century. [[Fernand Braudel]] wanted history to become more scientific by demanding more mathematical evidence in history, in order to make the history discipline less subjective. Furthermore, he added a social-economic and geographic framework to answer historical questions. Other French historians, like [[Philippe Ariès]] and [[Michel Foucault]] described history of daily life topics such as death and sexuality. They wanted history to be written about all topics and that all questions should be asked.
====Foundation of important historical journals====
The idea of the historical journal, a forum where academic historians could exchange ideas, came into being in the nineteenth century. The early journals were similar to those used in the physical sciences, and were seen as a means by which history could be professionalised. Journals also helped historians to establish various historiographical approaches, the most notable example of which was ''Annales. Économies. Sociétés. Civilisations.'' a publication instrumental in establishing the [[Annales School]].
*1840 ''[[Historisk tidsskrift (Denmark)|Historisk tidsskrift]]'' (Denmark)
*1859 ''[[Historische Zeitschrift]]'' (Germany)
*1866 ''Archivum historicum'', later ''[[Historiallinen arkisto]]'' (Finland, published in Finnish)
*1867 ''[[Századok]]'' (Hungary)
*1871 ''[[Historisk tidsskrift (Norway)|Historisk tidsskrift]]'' (Norway)
*1876 ''[[Revue Historique]]'' (France)
*1881 ''[[Historisk tidskrift]]'' (Sweden)
*1886 ''[[English Historical Review]]'' (UK)
*1895 ''[[American Historical Review]]'' (USA)
*1914 ''[[Mississippi Valley Historical Review]]'' (renamed 1964 the ''[[Journal of American History]]'') (USA)
*1916 ''[[The Journal of Negro History]]''
*1916 ''[[Historisk Tidskrift för Finland]]'' (Finland, published in Swedish)
*1918 ''[[Hispanic American historical review]]''
*1928 ''[[Scandia (journal)|Scandia]]'' (Sweden)
*1929 ''[[Annales School|Annales. Économies. Sociétés. Civilisations]] ''
*1952 ''[[Past & Present|Past & present: a journal of historical studies]]'' (Great Britain)
*1953 ''[[Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte]]'' (Germany)
*1956 ''[[Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria]]'' (Nigeria)
*1960 ''[[Journal of African History]]'' (Cambridge)
*1960 ''[[Technology and Culture|Technology and culture: the international quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology]]'' (USA)
*1975 ''[[Geschichte und Gesellschaft|Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Zeitschrift für historische Sozialwissenschaft]]'' (Germany)
*1976 ''[[Journal of Family History]]''
*1982 ''[[Storia della Storiografia — History of Historiography — Histoire de l'Historiographie — Geschichte der Geschichtsschreibung]]'' [http://www.cisi.unito.it/stor/home.htm]
*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]]''
*1990 ''[[L'Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft]]'' [http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/LHOMME/] (Austria)
*1990 ''[[Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften]]'' (ÖZG) [http://www.univie.ac.at/Wirtschaftsgeschichte/OeZG/] [[Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften]] (ÖZG)
*1992 ''[[Women's History Review]]''
*1993 ''[[Historische Anthropologie]]'' [http://www.historische-anthropologie.uni-goettingen.de/]
==Approaches to history ==
The question of how a historian approaches historical events is one of the most important questions within historiography. It is commonly recognised by historians that, in themselves, individual historical facts are not particularly meaningful. Such facts will only become useful when assembled with other historical evidence, and the process of assembling this evidence is understood as a particular historiographical approach.
Some of the more common historiographical approaches are:
*[[Annales School]]
*[[Big history]]
*[[Cliometrics]]
*[[Comparative history]]
*[[Critical historiography]]
*[[Cultural history]]
*[[Deconstruction]]
*[[Diplomatic history]]
*[[Economic history]]
*[[Family history]]
*[[Gender history]]
*[[Great man history]]
*[[Historical materialism]]
*[[History from below]]
*[[History of ideas]]
*[[Marxist historiography]]
*[[Metahistory]]
*[[Microhistory]]
*[[Military history]]
*[[Numismatics]]
*[[Oral history]]
*[[Paleography]]
*[[Political history]]
*[[Poststructural]]
*[[Prosopography]]
*[[Psychohistory]]
*[[Quantitative history]]
*[[Historical revisionism|Revisionism]]
*[[Social history]]
*[[Universal history]]
*[[Whig history]]
*[[Women's history]]
*[[World history]]
==References==
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== Bibliography==
===Theory and philosophy===
*[[Frank Ankersmit]] (ed), ''A New Philosophy of History'', 1995, ISBN 0-226-02100-9
*Michael Bentley, ''Modern Historiography: An Introduction'', 1999 ISBN 0-415-20267-1
*[[Marc Bloch]], ''The Historian's Craft'' [1940?]
*Peter Burke, ''History and Social Theory'', Polity Press, Oxford, 1992
*[[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
*[[Geoffrey Elton]], ''The Practice of History'', 1969, ISBN 0-631-22980-9
*[[Richard J. Evans]] ''In Defence of History'', 1997, ISBN 1862071047
*[[David Hackett Fischer]], ''Historians' Fallacies: Towards a Logic of Historical Thought'', Harper & Row, 1970.
*[[Keith Jenkins]], ''Rethinking History'', 1991, ISBN 0-415-30443-1
* Keith Jenkins, ed. ''The Postmodern History Reader'' (2006)
*[[Arthur Marwick]], ''The Nature of History'', 1970, ISBN 0-333-10941-4
* Alun Munslow. ''The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies'' (2000)
*John Tosh, ''The Pursuit of History'', 2002, ISBN 0-582-77254-0
* W.H. Walsh, ''An Introduction to Philosophy of History'', 1951.
*[[Hayden White]], ''The Content of Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation'', 1987, ISBN 0-8018-4115-1
===Histories of historical writing===
* Geoffrey Barraclough, ''History: Main Trends of Research in the Social and Human Sciences,'' (1978)
*Michael Bentley (ed.), ''Companion to Historiography'', Routledge, 1997, ISBN 0-415-28557-7 990pp; 39 chapters by experts
*Ernst Breisach, ''Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern'', 3rd edition, 2007, ISBN 0-226-07278-9
*H. Floris Cohen, ''The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry'', Chicago, 1994, ISBN 0-226-11280-2
*Mark T. Gilderhus, ''History an Historiographical Introduction'', 2002, ISBN 0-13-044824-9
*Georg G. Iggers, ''Historiography in the 20th Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge'' (2005)
*Susan Kinnell, ''Historiography: An Annotated Bibliography of Journal Article, Books and Dissertations'', 1987, ISBN 0-87436-168-0
* Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza, eds. ''A Companion to Western Historical Thought'' Blackwell 2006. 520pp; ISBN 978-1-4051-4961-7.
*Arnaldo Momigliano, ''The Classical Foundation of Modern Historiography'', 1990, ISBN 9780226072838
*Philippe Poirrier, ''Aborder l'histoire'', Paris, Seuil, 2000.
*Philippe Poirrier,''Les enjeux de l'histoire culturelle'', Paris, Seuil, 2004.
*Daniel Woolf, ''Historiography'', in ''New Dictionary of the History of Ideas'', ed. M.C. Horowitz, New York, Scribner, 2005, vol. I.
===Feminist historiography===
*[[Mary Ritter Beard]], ''Woman as force in history: A study in traditions and realities''
*[[Gerda Lerner]], ''The Majority Finds its Past: Placing Women in History'', New York: Oxford University Press 1979
* Bonnie G. Smith, ''The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice'', Harvard UP 2000
*Mary Spongberg, ''Writing women's history since the Renaissance'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
*Julie Des Jardins, "Women and the Historical Enterprise in America" University of North Carolina Press, 2002
*Judith M. Bennett, ''History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism'', University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
===Thematic and regional===
*John Ernest. ''Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861''. University of North Carolina Press, 2004
* Frank Farrell. ''Themes in Australian History: Questions, Issues and Interpretation in an Evolving Historiography'' (1990)
*[[Marc Ferro]], ''Cinema and History'', Wayne State University Press, 1988
* R. Darcy and Richard C. Rohrs, ''A Guide to Quantitative History'' (1995)
* Hudson, Pat. ''History by Numbers: An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches'' (2002)
*James W. Loewen, ''Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong'', Touchstone Books 1996
*[[Tessa Morris-Suzuki]], ''The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History'', 2005, ISBN 1-85984-513-4
* Gary Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross Dunn. ''History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past,'' (2000)
*[[Peter Novick]], ''That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession'' (1988), ISBN 0-521-34328-3
* Thomas Söderqvist. ''The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology'' (1997)
* Sommer, Barbara W. ''The Oral History Manual'' (2003)
*Jan Vansina, "Oral Tradition as History," University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1985
*Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. ''Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory'' (1982)
*Keita, Maghan. "Race and the Writing of History" Oxford UP (2000)
===Journals===
*[http://www.cromohs.unifi.it/index.html Cromohs — cyber review of modern historiography]
*''History and Theory''
*[http://www.cisi.unito.it/stor/home.htm History of Historiography]
== See also ==
* [[Philosophy of history]]
* [[Historiography of science]]
* [[Historiography and nationalism]]
** [[Soviet historiography]]
** [[Historiography of the Cold War]]
* [[List of historians]]
** [[List of historians by area of study]]
* [[Medieval Chronicle Society]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History]]
* [[Historical method]]
** [[Primary source]] — documents, correspondence, diaries
*** [[Secondary source]] — interpretations, written history
**** [[Tertiary source]] — compilations of other source material
==External links==
*[http://www.activehistory.co.uk/historiography/index.htm Series of accessible, interactive online lectures]
*[http://www.open2.net/historyandthearts/history/natureofhistory/index.html BBC Historiography Guide]
*[http://www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/ib/histo.html Summary of key historiographical schools]
*[http://www.galilean-library.org/int18.html Philosophy of History] introduced at The Galilean Library
*[http://www.galilean-library.org/tucker.html Scientific Historiography], explained in an interview with Aviezer Tucker at the Galilean Library
*[http://www.historiographyinternational.org/ International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography]
*[http://www.todayinah.co.uk/ Today in Alternate History], a daily-updated blog, featuring "Important Events In History That Never Occurred Today" in several recurring timelines.
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