History: Historiography
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What is a historiography?
A historiography is a summary and review of historians’ approaches to a particular historical topic. It is a history of the study of history.
Historiographies are useful to help researchers get an overview of what has been written on their topic so far, as well as the approaches that other historians have taken.
Historiographies can be useful sources to consult to inspire a research question, to situate your research in existing scholarship, and to find thorough bibliographies with sources that will help you in your own research.
Databases to Search for Historiographies
- America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly articles on American and Canadian history - Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Index and full text of scholarly articles covering world history (excluding U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
How to Search for Historiographies within UW
Search UW Libraries Search (see search box above) for either of these examples and see the results below:
- Example 1: Holocaust and historiography
- Example 2: religion and historiography
Holocaust and Justice: Representation and Historiography of the Holocaust in Post-War TrialsCall Number: UW Tacoma Library Stacks KZ1174.5 .H65 2010The Holocaust was not a major issue in the thirteen Nuremberg trials conducted in Germany between 1945-1949 by the International Military Tribunal. What was the background of the postwar war crimes trials, and what was their impact on society and collective memory? How did they shape international law? This book brings together observations on these and other issues from a broad range of international scholars on the representation of the Holocaust in the postwar trials and its historiography.
Religion and the American Nation: Historiography and HistoryCall Number: UW Tacoma Library Stacks BL2525 .W54 2003This lively survey . . . is concerned with how historians have perceived religion's relationship to the political organization of our country.... [He] discusses how scholars, since the early 1970s, have sought to ground their accounts of American religious trends and events in ways that either avoid or transcend references to Puritanism.
