The term can also describe a body of historical writing. For example, "medieval historiography during the 1960s" means "medieval history written during the 1960s".
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." (''The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide'', 1988, p. 223, ISBN 0882959824)
Although questions of method have concerned historians since Thucydides , many trace the modern study of historiography to E. H. Carr 's 1961 work '' What Is History? '' (ISBN 0333977017). Carr challenged to the traditional belief that the study of the Methods Of Historical Research and writing were unimportant. His work remains in print to this day, and is common to many postgraduate programs of study in both the United States and in Great Britain .
Historiography is often political in nature. For example, much 1960s historiography focused on the exclusion of the roles of women, minorities, and labor from written histories of the USA. According to these historiographers, historians in the 1930s and 1940s had a bias towards well-connected white males. Many historians from that point onward devoted themselves to what they saw as more accurate representations of the past, casting a light on those who had been previously disregarded as non-noteworthy.
The study of historiography demands a critical approach that goes beyond the mere examination of historical fact. Historiographical studies consider the source, often by researching the author, his or her position in society, and the type of history being written at the time.
Some of the common questions of historiography are:
- Who wrote the source (primary or secondary)?
- For primary sources, we look at the person in his or her society, for secondary sources, we consider the theoretical orientation of the approach for example, Marxist or Annales School , ("total history"), Political History , etc.
- What is the authenticity, authority, bias/interest, and intelligibility of the source?
- What was the view of history when the source was written?
- Was history supposed to provide moral lessons?
- What or who was the intended audience?
- What sources were privileged or ignored in the narrative?
- By what Method was the evidence compiled?
- In what historical context was the work of history itself written?
Issues engaged in so-called Critical Historiography includes topics such as:
- What constitutes an 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 contain?
- How does the historian establish their own objectivity or come to terms with their own subjectivity?
- What is the relation of historical theory to historical practice?
- What is the "goal" of history?
- What ''is'' history?
- 1859 Historische Zeitschrift (Germany)
- 1876 Revue Historique (France)
- 1895 American Historical Review (USA)
- 1914 Mississippi Valley Historical Review/Journal of American History (Beginning 1964) (USA)
- 1916 The Journal Of Negro History
- 1918 Hispanic American historical review
- 1929 Annales. Économies. Sociétés. Civilisations
- 1952 Past & Present : a journal of historical studies (Great Britain)
- 1953 Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (Germany)
- 1956 Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria (Nigeria)
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- Frank Ankersmit (ed), ''A New Philosophy of History'', 1995, ISBN 0226021009
- E. H. Carr , '' What Is History? '' 1961, ISBN 039470391X
- R.G. Collingwood , ''The Idea of History'', 1936, ISBN 0192853066
- Geoffrey Elton , ''The Practice of History'', 1969, ISBN 0631229809
- Richard J. Evans ''In Defence of History'', 1997, ISBN 3579108642
- Keith Jenkins , ''Rethinking History'', 1991, ISBN 0415304431
- Arthur Marwick , ''The Nature of History'', 1970, ISBN 0333109414
- John Tosh , ''The Pursuit of History'', 2002, ISBN 0582772540
- W.H. Walsh, ''An Introduction to Philosophy of History'', 1951.
- Hayden White , ''The Content of Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation'', 1987, ISBN 0801841151
- Tessa Morris-Suzuki , ''The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History'', 2005, ISBN 1859845134
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- Michael Bentley (ed.), ''Companion to Historiography'', Routledge, 1997, ISBN 0415285577
- Michael Bentley, ''Modern Historiography: An Introduction'', 1999 ISBN 0415202671
- Ernst Breisach, ''Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern'', 1994, ISBN 0226072789
- Peter Burke, ''History and Social Theory'', Polity Press, Oxford, 1992
- Mark T. Gilderhus, ''History and Historiographical Introduction'', 2002, ISBN 0130448249
- Susan Kinnell, ''Historiography: An Annotated Bibliography of Journal Article, Books and Dissertations'', 1987, ISBN 0874361680
- Arnaldo Momigliano, ''The Classical Foundation of Modern Historiography'', 1990, ISBN 0520078705
- Philippe Poirrier, ''Aborder l'histoire'', Paris, Seuil, 2000.
- Philippe Poirrier,''Les enjeux de l'histoire culturelle'', Paris, Seuil, 20004.
- 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, Cambridge, Mass. {Link without Title} : Harvard Univ. Press, 1998
- Mary Spongberg, Writing women's history since the Renaissance , Basingstoke {Link without Title} : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
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- John Ernest. ''Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861''. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004
- Marc Ferro , ''Cinema and History'', Wayne State University Press, 1988
- Ranajit Guha , ''Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India'', Harvard UP 1998
- M. Ismail Marcinkowski , ''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.
- Peter Novick , ''That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession'' 1988, ISBN 0521343283
- Roland Oliver , ''In the Realms of Gold: Pioneering in African History'', University of Wisconsin Press 1997
- Christopher Saunders, ''The making of the South African past : major historians on race and class'', Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble, 1988
- Bonnie G. Smith, ''The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice'', Harvard UP 2000
- James W. Loewen, ''Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong'', Touchstone Books 1996
- David Hackett Fischer, ''Historians' Fallacies: Towards a Logic of Historical Thought'', Harper & Row, 1970.
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