[Although I appreciate succinctness, I dislike the "keyhole" waste-of-screen presentation that YouTube has mandated for its attention-seeking "shorts" features]
Ancient Historians | Historiography [short] - Cynical > .
Historiography is a very important part of doing history. It's merely the history of history. Every undergrad history major takes a course in this, and grad students have an even more intense version. There you’ll learn about most of these schools of thought in great detail. Let’s go over each school in about a paragraph. Perhaps it’ll help you understand the evolution of the history field as a whole.
Historiography shorts - Cynical >> .
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana (1905) Reason in Common Sense, p. 284, volume 1 of The Life of Reason.
Those who cannot relinquish the past are doomed to repeat it ~ Bertie S. Teacup (2021)
0:00 introduction
1:35 Ancient & medieval times
2:48 Modernity
3:54 Antiquarians
4:40 Professionalization
5:24 Hegel
6:38 Marx
7:44 Modernization theory
8:26 Pragmatism
9:38 Consensus
10:10 Annales School
10:40 Linguistic turn
11:45 Microhistory
12:28 Gramsci
12:58 Frankfurt School
13:30 New Left
14:32 Feminism
15:32 Postcolonialism
16:56 transnationalism
18:14 Postmodernism
19:56 Post-revisionism
Playlist on how to research history: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... .
Playlist of historiography videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... .
Historiography is the study of the methods 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. Scholars discuss historiography by topic—such as the historiography of the United Kingdom, that of WWII, the British Empire, early Islam, and China—and different approaches and genres, such as political history and social history. Beginning in the nineteenth century, with the development of academic history, there developed a body of historiographic literature. The extent to which historians are influenced by their own groups and loyalties—such as to their nation state—remains a debated question.
In the ancient world, chronological annals were produced in civilizations such as ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. However, the discipline of historiography was first established in the 5th century BCE with the Histories of Herodotus, the founder of historiography. The Roman statesman Cato the Elder produced the first history in Latin, the Origines, in the 2nd century BC. His near contemporaries Sima Tan and Sima Qian in the Han Empire of China established Chinese historiography with the compiling of the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian). During the Middle Ages, medieval historiography included the works of chronicles in medieval Europe, Islamic histories by Muslim historians, and the Korean and Japanese historical writings based on the existing Chinese model. During the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment, historiography in the Western world was shaped and developed by figures such as Voltaire, David Hume, and Edward Gibbon, who among others set the foundations for the modern discipline.
The research interests of historians change over time, and there has been a shift away from traditional diplomatic, economic, and political history toward newer approaches, especially social and cultural studies. From 1975 to 1995 the proportion of professors of history in American universities identifying with social history increased from 31 to 41 percent, while the proportion of political historians decreased from 40 to 30 percent. In 2007, of 5,723 faculty in the departments of history at British universities, 1,644 (29 percent) identified themselves with social history and 1,425 (25 percent) identified themselves with political history. Since the 1980s there has been a special interest in the memories and commemoration of past events—the histories as remembered and presented for popular celebration.
In the ancient world, chronological annals were produced in civilizations such as ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. However, the discipline of historiography was first established in the 5th century BCE with the Histories of Herodotus, the founder of historiography. The Roman statesman Cato the Elder produced the first history in Latin, the Origines, in the 2nd century BC. His near contemporaries Sima Tan and Sima Qian in the Han Empire of China established Chinese historiography with the compiling of the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian). During the Middle Ages, medieval historiography included the works of chronicles in medieval Europe, Islamic histories by Muslim historians, and the Korean and Japanese historical writings based on the existing Chinese model. During the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment, historiography in the Western world was shaped and developed by figures such as Voltaire, David Hume, and Edward Gibbon, who among others set the foundations for the modern discipline.
The research interests of historians change over time, and there has been a shift away from traditional diplomatic, economic, and political history toward newer approaches, especially social and cultural studies. From 1975 to 1995 the proportion of professors of history in American universities identifying with social history increased from 31 to 41 percent, while the proportion of political historians decreased from 40 to 30 percent. In 2007, of 5,723 faculty in the departments of history at British universities, 1,644 (29 percent) identified themselves with social history and 1,425 (25 percent) identified themselves with political history. Since the 1980s there has been a special interest in the memories and commemoration of past events—the histories as remembered and presented for popular celebration.
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