historiography
noun
the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
historiographical
-
a word derived from
historiography.
Example Sentences
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There are occasional historiographical nods, to Samuel Eliot Morrison and C.H.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Political and judicial arguments aside, it would be bitterly ironic if history winds up being significantly changed by people who ignore proper historiographical practices.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2022
No other episode during the 1960 campaign has received so much historiographical attention.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2021
Thus, one of the music’s earliest and most storied wax battles was born, at least superficially, out of a historiographical dispute.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2019
The traditional historiographical emphasis on the new physics assumes that the mathematization of the world began in the seventeenth century.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
