How to Use historiography in a Sentence

historiography

noun
  • Her craft is studious, and her art offers just as much subtle, careful historiography as plush, sticky melodies.
    — Vulture, 17 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The whole of Hollywood historiography has that sort of problem.
    — refinery29.com, 9 July 2018
  • 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
  • These academic disagreements are not likely to be of great interest to those who aren’t steeped in the historiography of the period.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The effects of the internet on historiography cannot be overstated.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 11 June 2019
  • The author’s deference reaches a point where his own work becomes more historiography than history.
    — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 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
  • The field of historiography is a field of interpretation, and arguments are normative to the field.
    — Hanna Phifer, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Feb. 2023
  • But in a sense, these arguments themselves may represent the apotheosis of our historiography.
    — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Portraiture and painting were forms of historiography.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • No wonder historians tend to avoid historiography, writing about how history is written.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The earliest extant works of historiography by Muslim scholars date to a similar period.
    — Christopher Carroll, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Add to that their cultural breakthroughs, inventing historiography, medicine, theater, philosophy—even the words are of Greek origin.
    — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
  • For them, the culture war of the 1990s was clearly connected to the upheaval in American historiography.
    — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 mountain of Marxist historiography is, like the Scholasticism of the Middle Ages, a monument to faith turned tyrannical.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • Yet, even as French historiography has obscured the Haitian Revolution, its consequences endure today.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The historiography of medieval Spain is an academic battleground on which historians and other intellectuals pick over elements of the country’s past that might support one or another version of its national identity.
    — Robert Irwin, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2019
  • 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

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