How to Use This Guide
Welcome to the Tisch Library guide for Historiography. Use the table of contents to find definitions, topic overviews, books, articles, and more that will help you with your research.
Historiography: Background & Context
Want to learn more about the background and context of historiography and historical research? Below is a selection of resources that can help you to develop a better understanding of historiogrpahy, including the theoretical discourses.
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Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and ModernIn this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this work narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with sections on such current topics as postmodernism, deconstructionism, black history, women's history, microhistory, Historikerstreit, the linguistic turn, and more.
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Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern ChallengeA preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography, tracing the basic assumptions on which historical research and writing have been based and describing how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography following World War II.
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The Search for a Usable Past, and Other Essays in HistoriographyClassic title on that includes essays on the historiography of American history up to the mid-20th Century.
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HistoriographyAn entry in the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century.
Print Resources in the Library's Collection
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Companion to HistoriographyCall Number: Book Stacks D13 .C626 1997The Companion to Historiography is an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development and explores the assumptions and procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives. -
History as a Kind of WritingCall Number: Book Stacks DC36.9 .C37913 2017In academia, the traditional role of the humanities is being questioned by the "posts"--postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postfeminism--which means that the project of writing history only grows more complex. -
Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits: Post-Communist Historiography Between Democratization and New Politics of HistoryCall Number: Book Stacks DJK51 .O35 2017Important, innovative and appealing, this volume of essays problematizes the intersection of the "political involvement in interpretation of the past" and the "nationalisation of the past by reinvention of 'authentic national historical memory.'" -
Authority and Identity in Medieval Islamic HistoriographyCall Number: Book Stacks DS288 .H36 2016This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary method of approaching particular local histories from the Persianate world.
