Historiography is the study of, and the practice of, writing history. History is the result, and historiography is the method. History asks, "Why, how, who, when;" Historiography asks, "Why write history, how is history written, who writes histories, when is a history obsolete?"
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Has history mistreated Nero?
Nero is (wrongly) "known" as the Emperor who "fiddled while Rome burned." But he did kill a number of prominent people, including his own mother. He is treated by much of history as a psychopath, and ...
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Horace Walpole on Richard III
Thus reads Wikipedia:
In Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III (1768),
Walpole defended Richard III against the common belief that he
murdered the Princes in the Tower. In ...
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What is the difference between a professional historian and an amateur?
Some historians appear to practice history professionally, in the sense that they produce histories that are accepted by other historians as "real" and "full." In this sense there is a profession of ...
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The Rosenberg diary and the functionalist-intentionalist debate
Today it was announced that the diary of Alfred Rosenberg was been found, after it had disappeared in 1946.
Prima facie, this would seem to be a major piece of historical evidence for the ...
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How do historians deal with Historical Bias?
A while ago while watching Crash Course World History, John Green mentioned how Alexander the Great died from the flu despite many people from that time claiming that he died in battle (because this ...
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How is history studied?
What are the unique and distinct features of the study of history in terms of:
Epistemology
Purpose
Theory
Method
Methodology
Does the study of history produce unique perceptions?
Does the ...
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What scholarly positions exist evaluating Thatcher's competence and the desirability of her government's policies?
I am aware of a variety of normative accounts of the desirability of Thatcher's politics in the social domain; and of the broad opinions regarding her competence (generally highly competent, poll tax ...
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How is the discipline of History differentiated from other disciplines in social sciences or the humanities?
History is a discipline in the academy that is some times a social science and sometimes a humanity. However, there are many other social sciences (economics, political science) and many other ...
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What are legitimate methods and sources?
How does a historian or an amateur determine what legitimate methods can be used and what legitimate sources are? Obviously there are many methods to read texts and speculate about political, social, ...
