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historiographies

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  • noun Plural form of historiography.

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Examples

  • It is too soon to understand exactly how the passing of time, change in historiographies, and individual life histories will revise and reformulate historical memories.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • Within only a couple of days the seminal events of 7/20/69 was condensed into a series of 17 syllable historiographies, elucidating the here/now resonance of the first lunar landing.

    Susanna Speier: Apollo 11 Politiku 2009

  • I wonder if there's a way of thinking through this odd relationship between Hiro, Heroes and the past that could be a productive exercise towards examining the writing of other historiographies.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • I wonder if there's a way of thinking through this odd relationship between Hiro, Heroes and the past that could be a productive exercise towards examining the writing of other historiographies.

    "But History has already written that story" : Heroes Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • Really, pre-Enlightenment historiographies ALWAYS have this problem.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Be Careful Relying on Ancient Sources: 2009

  • An examination of the historiographies of Hebrew literature during the pre-State (Yishuv) period in Palestine (1882 – 1948) yields little discussion, mapping or classification of the gamut of women writers who authored works of prose during this period.

    Prose Writing in the Yishuv: 1882-1948. 2009

  • Considerations of the role that the sciences play in early modern European art have a well-established place in the historiographies of both sciences and art.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Historians always have to account for changing historiographies and new methods, at a minimum by making their own contribution to extend boundaries and analyses that have become conventional, considering all the while that they themselves are embedded in a personal and social historical context that shapes their work.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • And while I may have had a wisp of an idea, caught from the historiographies within my reach, that I might find evidence of rural women's pasts in such unlikely forms as pottery, such unexpected places as cultivated fields, this evidence was neither "already there" waiting for me nor experientially true in the manner I had imagined.

    Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

  • The timing is right, and if archaeologists can write anthropologically inspired large-scale histories that address real absences in the historical record and draw on a diversity of historiographies, the handmaiden shadow will disappear.

    Always a Handmaiden--Never a Bride 2000

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