Historiography
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Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline. By extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subj
The Allegory On the Writing of History shows Truth (top) watching the historian write history, while advised by Wisdom (Jacob de Wit, 1754)
Reproduction of part of a tenth-century copy of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War
Bust of Thucydides, Hellenistic copy of a 4th-century BC work
The Roman bust traditionally identified as Cato the Elder
History
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History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explai
Fragment of the Histories by Herodotus, an Ancient Greek historical text
Archives preserve large quantities of original sources for researchers to access.
Auguste Comte articulated positivism, advocating a science-based approach to history.
Historians draw on evidence from various fields to examine prehistory, including fossils like Lucy.