Editing Historiography (section)

==Approaches==
How a historian approaches historical events is one of the most important decisions within historiography. Historians commonly recognise that individual historical facts—dealing with names, dates and places—are not particularly meaningful in themselves. Such facts only become useful/informative when assembled with other historical evidence, and the process of assembling this evidence is understood{{by whom|date=November 2021}} as a particular historiographical approach.

Some influential historiographical approaches include:

* [[Big History]]
* [[Business history]], [[History of institutions]] and [[Official history]]
* [[Black history (disambiguation)|Black history]]<!--Intentional link to DAB page-->
* [[Chronology]]
* [[Comparative history]]
* [[Cultural history]]
* [[Diplomatic history]]
* [[Decolonization of knowledge]]
* [[Economic history]] ([[history of capitalism]]), ([[Business history]]), (financial history)
* [[Environmental history]], a relatively new field
* [[Ethnohistory]]
* [[Gender history]] including [[women's history]], [[family history]], [[feminist history]]
* [[World history (field)|Global history]], or [[World history (field)|World History]]
* [[Global studies]]
* [[Great man theory]] and [[Heroism]]
* [[History of medicine]]
* [[History of religion]] and [[church history]]; the history of theology is usually handled{{by whom|date=November 2021}} under [[theology]]
* [[Indigenous peoples|Indigenous history]]
* [[Industrial history]] and the history of [[technology]]
* [[Intellectual history]] and the [[history of ideas]]
* [[Labor history (discipline)|Labor history]]
* [[Legendary history]] – important in pre-modern contexts
* [[Local history]] and [[microhistory]]
* [[Marxist historiography]] and [[historical materialism]]
* [[Migration studies]]
* [[Military history]], including naval and air history
* [[Mythography|Mythistory]] – history incorporating elements of myth
* [[National history]] – comforting myths of individual peoples
* [[oral tradition|Oral history]] and [[Traditional knowledge]]
* [[Political history]]
* [[Public history]], especially museums and historic preservation
* [[Quantitative history]] ([[prosopography]] using statistics to study biographies)
* [[Historiography of science]] 
* [[Social history]] and [[people's history]]; along with the French version the [[Annales school|''Annales'' school]] and the German [[Bielefeld School]]
* [[Subaltern Studies]], regarding post-colonial India
* [[Urban history]]
** [[American urban history]]
* [[Whig history]], history interpreted as the story of continuous progress
* [[World history (field)|World history]]
* [[Zeitgeist]]

===Related fields===
Important related fields include:
* [[Antiquarian]]ism
* [[Genealogy]]
* [[Historical archaeology]]
* [[Intellectual history]]
* [[Numismatics]]
* [[Paleography]]
* [[Philosophy of history]]
* [[Pseudohistory]]