Senior Seminar
Key Terms for the Study of History
and/or Historiography
Senior Seminar students should be familiar
with the basic definitions of the following terms. Understanding them is
central to a comprehension of the nature of historical writing and historiography.
| Anachronism | Laws (Historical) |
| Annales School of Historical Writing | Liberalism |
| Antiquarianism | Method |
| Biography | Narrative |
| Causation | Nationalism |
| Civilization | National Character |
| Colligation | New History |
| Comparative History | Objectivity |
| Contemporary History | Past |
| Constructivism | Periodization |
| Counterfactual Analysis | Philosophy of History |
| Criticism | Popular History |
| Cultural History | Process |
| Culture | Progress (Idea of) |
| Determinism | Psychohistory |
| Econometric History, New Economic History, Cliometrics | Quantification |
| Economic History | Race/Racism |
| Enlightenment | Radical History |
| Event | Realism |
| Evidence | Recurrence |
| Explanation | Relativism |
| Fact | Romanticism |
| History | Scientific History |
| Historicism | Skepticism |
| Historiography | Social History |
| Idealism | Style |
| Ideology | Understanding |
| Imagination | Universal History |
| Intellectual History/History of Ideas | Value Judgment |
| Interdisciplinary History | Zeitgeist |
| Interpretation |
This Page is Maintained by Robert W. Brown;
Last Update: 16.VIII.2001.