The Cynical Historian

The History of History | Rapid Historiography (2021x36)

Air date: Aug 30, 2021

Ready to take an entire historiography class in 20 minutes? Well too bad, here it is anyways. 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. Sections covered: 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=PLjnwpaclU4wU5T64ixCALFUC6c6cQJjL- Playlist of historiography videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wUYMDmuznH5PvCoAlMRReX6 ------------------------------------------------------------ *References* James M. Banner, _The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History_ (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021), audiobook. https://amzn.to/3y0Y8er Peter Gunn, _History and Cultural Theory_ (Oxon, UK: Pearson Education Limited, 2006). https://amzn.to/2uWmK9F Peter Charles Hoffer, _Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin_ (New York: Public Affairs, 2004). https://amzn.to/2OQJh0m Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza, eds., _A Companion to Western Historical Thought_ (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2002). https://amzn.to/2LhuzSf Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt, _History Wars: The Enola Gay and other Battles for the Am