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Introduction
History of historiography
- Ancient historiography
  - The first histories
    - Egypt and Mesopotamia
    - China
  - Hebrew traditions
  - Greek historiography
    - Herodotus
    - Thucydides
  - Roman historiography
    - Polybius
    - Diodorus, Sallust, and Livy
    - Tacitus
    - Suetonius and Plutarch
- Medieval historiography
  - The early Christian conception of history
  - Augustine
  - Early Germanic and English histories
  - Chronicles and hagiographies
  - New forms
- Islamic historiography
  - Al-Ṭabarī and Rashīd al-Dīn
  - Ibn Khaldūn
- History in the Renaissance
  - Petrarch
  - Lorenzo Valla
  - Flavio Biondo and Leonardo Bruni
  - Niccolò Machiavelli
  - Francesco Guicciardini
  - Giorgio Vasari
- Early modern historiography
  - Church history
    - Centuriae Magdeburgenses and Annales Ecclesiastici
    - Paolo Sarpi
  - Legal history
    - Guillaume Budé and François Hotman
    - François Baudouin and Jean Bodin
    - Étienne Pasquier
    - The Bollandist Fathers and Jean Mabillon
- Enlightenment historiography
  - Science and skepticism
  - Montesquieu and Voltaire
  - Edward Gibbon
- Romantic historiography
  - Johann Gottfried von Herder
  - Giambattista Vico
  - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  - Jules Michelet
  - Historiography in England
  - Historiography in the United States
- History becomes academic
  - Johann Christoph Gatterer and the Göttingen scholars
  - Leopold von Ranke
- New histories
  - Germany
  - France
  - The United States
  - Marxist historiography
- Contemporary historiography
Branches of history
- History of the arts
- Biography and psychohistory
- Diplomatic history
- Economic history
- Intellectual history
- Military history
- Political history
- History of science
- Social and cultural history
- Women’s history
- World history
Methodology of historiography
- The historian’s sources
- From explanation to interpretation
- The presentation of history

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