Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All

by AutoModerator

Previous weeks!

This week, ending in September 18 2014:

Today's thread is for open discussion of:

  • History in the academy

  • Historiographical disputes, debates and rivalries

  • Implications of historical theory both abstractly and in application

  • Philosophy of history

  • And so on

Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion only of matters like those above, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.

caffarelli

Have any of you had to deal with link rot in citations while researching?

[deleted]

Is the historiography of historiography studied at all?

Scaluni

Here are two VERY broad questions, so I apologize in advance. How has historiography changed in the past 20 years and how is it currently changing? What can we expect of the future of historical thought?