How to Use historiography in a Sentence

historiography

noun

• And the movie shows that the historiography of Chris Burden is at least as interesting as the work itself.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 19 May 2017
• Dwell too much on the historiography of how accounts of Mary have changed through the years and risk saying less about her than about her biographers.
  — Jonathan Horn, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
• Minshull’s goal, one gathers, is less to trace a historiography of the rambler than to expand the genre of flânerie, with an open-endedness true to its spirit.
  — Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• In 1984, when Dongnyok published a new translation of Song of Arirang, the book satisfied a hunger for left-wing historiography.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020
• Her craft is studious, and her art offers just as much subtle, careful historiography as plush, sticky melodies.
  — Vulture, 17 Feb. 2023
• For them, the culture war of the 1990s was clearly connected to the upheaval in American historiography.
  — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
• The whole of Hollywood historiography has that sort of problem.
  — refinery29.com, 9 July 2018
• The mountain of Marxist historiography is, like the Scholasticism of the Middle Ages, a monument to faith turned tyrannical.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 20 May 2022
• The field of historiography is a field of interpretation, and arguments are normative to the field.
  — Hanna Phifer, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Feb. 2023
• Still, his anger served as a reminder of how much of Spain’s national historiography remained unchallenged.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2021
• In his years at school, Mr. Calhoun had written a master’s thesis on the historiography of Napoleon’s peninsular war and had attended a law seminar in Belgium.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
• The effects of the internet on historiography cannot be overstated.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 11 June 2019
• Despite its light tone, The Housing Lark conveys a complex and crucial debate about education and historiography: Whose history will be told, and how?
  — Dohra Ahmad, The New York Review of Books, 10 Jan. 2020
• Conversely, scholars of fascism present the Shoah as a particular event that is not central to fascist historiography.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
• At the same time, Gorra points out, the depiction of enslaved people fleeing to freedom and securing their own emancipation transcends the historiography of Faulkner’s time and anticipates that of our own.
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2020
• Mythological accounts of prehistoric times share space with passages that clearly aim to meet the standards of documentary historiography, at least as it was understood in the ancient world.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Gorra has drawn on Faulkner’s life and family story; his various works; letters, journals, histories, and fiction of the period; and the historiography of the Civil War and its aftermath.
  — Michael Gorra, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• Burnett’s film is a cinematic work of historiography, charting how authors’ creations both form and deform the historical record—and shape or warp public opinion.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 June 2020
• John Burrow’s book, which stands as one of the most erudite, authoritative, comprehensive and delightful works on historiography ever written, is one of those.
  — James M. Banner Jr., WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
• But in a sense, these arguments themselves may represent the apotheosis of our historiography.
  — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
• The resulting highlight reel of black triumph is pure historiography, a particular formulation of the story of black America.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2018
• The earliest extant works of historiography by Muslim scholars date to a similar period.
  — Christopher Carroll, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2017
• Yet, even as French historiography has obscured the Haitian Revolution, its consequences endure today.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2020
• The play’s message that alliance with Moscow was a tragedy for Ukraine directly contradicted official imperial historiography, and it was neither published nor performed until after the collapse of the empire.
  — Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
• Hurwitz’s fundamental connection of Holocaust consciousness with the civil rights of Americans—especially those of black Americans—is borne out by the course of historiography, especially on film.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2017
• France’s education system is highly centralized, and the years following the passage of the law saw significant progress in updating historiography, training teachers, and revising textbooks.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2020
• The interiority of history, the way it is driven by human beliefs, hopes, affections, and hatreds, has often been obscured in English-language historiography because our great thinkers, left and right, have mostly been materialists.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 25 Aug. 2020
• No wonder historians tend to avoid historiography, writing about how history is written.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 20 May 2022
• English professors find the turn particularly baffling now: a moment when, by most appearances, the appetite for public contemplation of language, identity, historiography, and other longtime concerns of the seminar table is at a peak.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• Ben-Gurion was among those national leaders not content with making history, but also eager to influence his country’s historiography.
  — The Economist, 2 May 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024