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
Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
The Idea of History
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
Telling the Truth About History
Escape to the Maroons by Mike WeedallAnti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard HofstadterThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard BailynThe Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. WoodThe Metaphysical Club  by Louis Menand
US Intellectual History
256 books — 121 voters
Ten Days that Shook the World by John   ReedHistory of the Russian Revolution by Leon TrotskyA People's Tragedy by Orlando FigesWhat Is to Be Done? by Vladimir LeninRed Flag Unfurled by Ronald Grigor Suny
Russian Revolution Historiography
42 books — 7 voters

When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond by Linwood NormanThe Historian's Craft by Marc BlochPracticing History by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Histories by HerodotusLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Best Books on Historical Theory
66 books — 32 voters
Mayflower by Nathaniel PhilbrickA Voyage Long and Strange by Tony HorwitzJohn Adams by David McCulloughAlbion's Seed by David Hackett FischerThe Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
Colonial North America (nonfiction)
141 books — 51 voters

What is Cultural History? by Peter BurkeWhat is the History of the Book? by James RavenWhat is the History of Emotions? by Barbara H. RosenweinWhat is Sexual History? by Jeffrey   WeeksWhat is the History of Knowledge? by Peter Burke
Polity's What is History? series
17 books — 1 voter
Imperiofobia y leyenda negra by María Elvira Roca BareaEn defensa de España by Stanley G. PayneTree of Hate by Fred Wilbur PowellLos orígenes de la Leyenda Negra española by Sverker ArnoldssonNada por lo que pedir perdón by Marcelo Gullo
Leyenda Negra - Spanish Black Legend
35 books — 4 voters

If to see with the sight of another is hypnotism, then every man who writes a book or tells a good tale is a hypnotist; every historian who makes us see the past is a necromancer.
Eleanor M. Ingram, The Thing From the Lake

Geert Mak
We gunnen onszelf zo graag het beeld van de geschiedenis als een onontkoombare stroom, als een onvermijdelijke gang van A naar D via B en C. Vergeet het maar. Ook in deze geschiedenis – die tevens de onze is – wemelt het van de wissels die op het allerlaatst nog werden omgegooid, van de momenten waarop alles heel anders had kunnen verlopen, van de situaties die smeken om een ‘what if’, een ‘wat als’-analyse.
Geert Mak, Wisselwachter

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