Historiography

Historiography is the study of the methodology of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches

What Is History?
The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
In Defense of History
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
The Idea of History
Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
On History
The Uses and Abuses of History
Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge
Gender and the Politics of History
Terry Pratchett
Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just... well, things happening one after another. ...more
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Annette Gordon-Reed
I don't adhere to the idea that you don't make moral judgments. I think history is a moral profession. We don't just look back and say, oh, and here is how they slaughtered the innocents, and go move on. ...more
Annette Gordon-Reed

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