What's the difference between historian and historiography?

Historian


Definition:

  • (n.) A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.
  • (n.) One versed or well informed in history.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
  • (2) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
  • (3) Jeanne Haffner is a historian and writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • (4) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
  • (5) As the historian of neoliberalism Philip Mirowski argues , what the past 30 years have been about is using the powers of the state to divert more resources to the wealthy.
  • (6) A photograph, first exhibited by the Department of Psychology of Clark University at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago is included, and further illustrates the importance of these instruments to historians.
  • (7) Academic and TV historian Mary Beard has disclosed her innovative approach to dealing with her vitriolic Twitter trolls – writing them a job reference.
  • (8) Northup eventually detailed his experiences in a book, also titled Twelve Years a Slave , which helped historians build a picture of the slave experience at the time.
  • (9) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
  • (10) Others, including sociologist and historian of ideas Pierre-André Taguieff , claim that the media’s “methodical stigmatisation” of Israel and an increasing anti-Israel bias in France in general has encouraged the emergence of a Muslim Judeophobia.
  • (11) The British historian Simon Schama narrowly escaped death this year when the helicopter he was on caught fire and crash-landed.
  • (12) MI5 kept close watch on a number of people who were known within the British Communist party as the Historians Group.
  • (13) Applicants were then required to provide strong evidence to the NSW crown solicitor’s office of connection to country, and included affidavits from traditional owners and reports by an anthropologist, historian and linguist.
  • (14) But the bigger question, the one that has vexed historians, biographers and holocaust experts for eight decades, is why she was there.
  • (15) Elsewhere, historian Dominic Sandbrook will look at the global domination of Britain’s post-empire popular culture, and the Hairy Bikers will take 30 retired people to a secondary school in Old School, attempting to transform the lives and experiences of both.
  • (16) To a packed court, Mr Justice Gray delivered a verdict that excoriated Irving as a man and a historian.
  • (17) Yet it was as the defining Marxist historian of the century of revolution, the title of one of the most widely studied of his many books, that he became known to generations of students around the world.
  • (18) Ohler’s book may well irritate some historians; he makes flippant remarks and uses chapter titles such as “Sieg High!” and “High Hitler”.
  • (19) Susan Greaney, an English Heritage historian, said: "The discovery … has certainly strengthened the case for it being a full circle."
  • (20) Christian Gizewski a research professor at TU Berlin describes himself as a "general historian" specialising in ancient history.

Historiography


Definition:

  • (n.) The art of employment of an historiographer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The explanation for the explosion of science in the 17th century lies in history and medical historiography.
  • (2) Cameron studiously avoided discussing the morality of the Great War, or the long Conservative historiography, including Alan Clark, Niall Ferguson and Andrew Roberts, that has condemned the war as a catastrophic failure by a political and military elite – the conscripted lions notoriously led by the callous and unthinking donkeys dining behind the trenches.
  • (3) Today historiography (the writing of stories) presented as nothing but a search for truth merits the charge of naiveté.
  • (4) This paper seeks to fill a gap in nursing historiography by presenting an overview of the historical presence of Jewish women in nursing.
  • (5) These works are reminders that Hobsbawm was both a bridge between European and British historiography and a forerunner of the notable rise of the study of social history in post-1968 Britain.
  • (6) Since 1980 a 'new' history of nursing has been emerging, one that attempts to address serious problems within nursing historiography such as the subordination of nursing history to medical history.
  • (7) The author argues the proposition that historiography can only fulfill its function of giving sense to life if it simultaneously admits its deconstruction, its counter-sense.
  • (8) The author uses hitherto unpublished facts to present a detailed picture of the professional work and private life of Friedrich L. Urban, making a contribution to the historiography of veterinary surgery.
  • (9) The medical historiography considers him one of the outstanding representatives of the 18th century, chemistry calls him the ancestor of photography.
  • (10) In official Soviet historiography, the city could not be surrendered because Hitler planned total destruction of its beautiful buildings – and its residents.
  • (11) Let them tell us “how it really was”, in the famous phrase of the father of modern historiography, Leopold von Ranke (who taught at Berlin’s leading university, now called the Humboldt University, which itself endured decades behind the Wall).
  • (12) An issue in the historiography of nursing is whether nurses desired baccalaureate education for their occupation, and were unable to accomplish this, or whether they preferred diploma schools.
  • (13) In the context of a world-wide coverage of contemporary historiography of psychology, a descriptive account is presented of major recent events and of publications, grouped into five categories: original works, new editions, editions of the classics of science, readings, and translations.
  • (14) According to the author, it seems that, apart from the psychoanalytical concept, the phenomenological, descriptive-analytical procedure ist particularly suitable for the presentation of the mental aspect in the historiography.
  • (15) A search for consensus about the methodology of discovery among physicians and physiologists led the author to identify a crucial anomaly of medical historiography: in general, physicians stress the significance of clinicopathologic method, while physiologists emphasize the experimental.
  • (16) In the evolution of mankind and therefore in the veterinary historiography as well you can find the belief in magic and in magic medicine.
  • (17) Viewed by some as the last word in historiography and by others as the latest word in histrionics, it is in fact nothing more and nothing less than a technique with many worthwhile applications if handled with reason and proper preparation.A brief historical review of the oral history movement is followed by a description of the current efforts in oral history in the life sciences.
  • (18) The same is true of the radically opposite positions of modern American scientific historiography.
  • (19) This is neither empathy nor responsible historiography; this is math.
  • (20) A review of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences revealed that all of the author's opinions on historiography have been well represented.