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Bibliography

• Barraclough, Geoffrey, and Michael Burns. Main Trends in History, (1991) online edition
• Bender, Thomas et al. The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century (2004) online edition
• Bender, Thomas. ed. Rethinking American History in a Global Age (2002) online edition
• Bentley, Michael. Modern Historiography: An Introduction. (1999) online edition
• Bentley, Michael. Companion to Historiography (2003), 40 articles on national traditions from ancient to present
• Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern (2007)
• Burke, Peter, French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 1929-89 (1991); see also Annales School
• Burrow, John. A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century (2008), 544 pp; covers Herodotus, Thucydides and Polybius, through Gibbon, Macaulay, Michelet, Prescott and Parkman to Butterfield, Trevelyan and Toynbee.
• Cantor, Norman F. Inventing the Middle Ages. (1993)
• Evans, Richard J.; In Defence of History; (2000), ISBN 0-393-31959-8
• Foner, Eric. ed. New American History (1997)
• Galloway, Patricia. Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative. (U. of Nebraska Press, 2006. 454 pp. isbn 978-0-8032-7115-9.)
• Gilderhus, Mark. History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction (6th ed. 2006), 160 pp, textbook
• Granatstein, J. L. Who Killed Canadian History? (1998). attacks postmodernism and new social history
• Hofstadter, Richard. Progressive Historians: Turner Beard Parrington (1969)
• Iggers, Georg G. Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge (2005) excerpt and text search
• Iggers, Georg G. New Directions in European Historiography (rev. ed., 1985).
• Lucassen, Jan, ed. Global Labour History: A State of the Art (Bern: Peter Lang, 2006. 790 pp. isbn 0-820-47567-X.)
• Norton, Mary Beth. The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature (2 vol 1995), 2027 pages; massive guide to the entire historiography of the world; annotates 27,000 books and articles, mostly in English excerpt and text search
• Novick, Peter. That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (1988), highly regarded analysis focused on 20c Americans. excerpt and text search
• Ritter, Harry. Dictionary of Concepts in History (1986) excerpt and text search
• Stokes, Melvyn. The State of U.S. History (2002) online edition
• Thompson, James Westfall, and Bernard J. Holm; A History of Historical Writing (1942) vol 1: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Seventeenth Century online edition vol 2: 18th and 19th centuries online edition; detailed discussion of the work of major historians
• Wang, Q. Edward, and Georg G. Iggers, eds. Turning Points in Historiography: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. (2005)
• Wiener, Philip P. ed. The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas (4 vol 1973-74) online edition
• Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past. (2000), Australian critique. online edition
• Wish, Harvey. The American Historian: A Social-intellectual History of the Writing of the American Past, (1960) online edition
• Woolf, D. R. A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing ( 2 vol 1998), comprehensive guide to all schools and major scholars online and text search]
• Zunz, Olivier ed. Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History, (1985) online edition