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As stated by Professor Shrout and the author Jeremy D. Popkin, a Historiography is the history of history. Popkin states that, “to study historiography is to begin to understand how historians think and how they do their work…,” or in a way everyone can probably understand a historiography is a way to help understand how past historians decided on their projects and the ways the historian went about making the project happen.

Popkin’s book is all about the concerns and different ways a historiography can be written. He also explains that while a historiography helps teach about history, it also helps teach the reader about the historian who wrote the historiography. These historians can range from the past with Machiavelli and Marc Bloch, to present day with filmmakers, historical websites and other such electronic-based tools. Having these sources of history will always help people to understand the past and how our present day world has come about. However that only works as long as each source is proven to be as accurate as possible to how the real history was played out and not the ‘emotionally charged myths’ that can affect the present day world. Unfortunately there are many different ways to interpret history. To quote from sevallos’ blog post, “Chicago’s geographic advantages as a city needed much improvement upon the land in order to be utilized.” This quote could be taken from: a geographical historian, a financial historian, a social historian, or even possibly a cultural historian point of view. Although it does not matter whose viewpoint it is from, as long as the reader takes the history presented from their own way of viewing the history.