Approaches to History

Approaches to history
The question of how a historian approaches historical events is one of the most important questions within historiography. It is commonly recognised by historians that, in themselves, individual historical facts are not particularly meaningful. Such facts will only become useful when assembled with other historical evidence, and the process of assembling this evidence is understood as a particular historiographical approach.
Some of the more common historiographical approaches are:
Annales School
Big history
Cliometrics
Comparative history
Critical historiography
Cultural history
Deconstruction
Diplomatic history
Economic history
Family history
Gender history
Great man history
Historical materialism
History from below
History of ideas
Marxist historiography
Metahistory
Microhistory
Military history
Numismatics
Oral history
Paleography
Political history
Poststructural
Prosopography
Psychohistory
Quantitative history
Revisionism
Social history
Universal history
Whig history
Women's history
World history