historiographic
- adjective
- /ˌhɪstəriəˈɡræfɪk/
- Specialized
- This book provides a comprehensive historiographic overview of the Civil War and its enduring impact.
- historiographic metafiction
- historiographic narratives
- historiographic essay
Examples
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Such assignments could include critical and historiographic essays and papers dealing with the interpretation of primary sources.
Academic text (1991) -
Alexandra Schwartz offers a historiographic study of the development of Los Angeles pop art in the 1960s.
Academic text (2005) -
According to the German-American historiographic tradition, the Germans played a crucial role in these events?
Academic text (1994) -
However, especially for Noiriel and others working on immigration, the implicit and often explicit historiographic reference was that of American history.
Academic text (1994) -
Daniel Varisco deals both with the historiographic representation of tribes and the sociopolitical "reality" they represent.
Academic text (1995) -
Community college faculty favored short reports, while UNC system faculty were more likely to assign critical or historiographic essays.
Academic text (1991) -
Recent works have woven these two historiographic traditions together, revealing more complexity in German-American political allegiances.
Academic text (1994) -
Scholarly debates over the motives, ramifications, and effects of tourism frequently parallel historiographic concerns.
Academic text (1994) -
The professor gave a lecture on the historiographic methods used in analyzing ancient texts.
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In her dissertation, she focused on historiographic debates surrounding interpretations of World War II.
Synonyms
The study of how people write about the past
How Scholarly
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
historiographic = historiography (semi-transparent) = historiography + ic
Formed by adding the adjective-forming suffix '-ic' to the noun 'historiography'; the relation is clear morphologically but both elements are academic and may be unfamiliar to average learners.
Etymology
Historiographic comes from history 'stories of the past' and -graph 'to write', as in biography, which is a written life story. So, historiographic means about how history is written or studied.