Popkin begins his book, From Herodotus to H-Net<\/em>, with a preface that explains the history and beginnings of historiography. After his short preface, he starts off chapter one with explaining how historiography can help answer important historical questions. Popkin defines historiography as “the critical assessment of the ways in which historians try to reconstruct past events as distinguished from the statements they make about the past”. In other words it is a way other historians try to take a new angle at another scholar’s work or to try and disprove what their statement is with their own facts and interpretations. Historiography is the practice of historians asking questions, like how or why, about historical events to make new statements or perspectives on the event to try and find the true reason. Popkin goes on to explain why students hate historiography and want to focus more on the historical narrative that they have a fixation on for whatever reason. He also says that even though professors all hear about the complaining that they all can come to an agreement that students need at least some exposure to the style to be able to grasp the concepts it brings. Historiography can be used to help push “truthful history” versus the emotional and motive driven history that has been told in the past. Popkin wraps up his chapter with listing the different feilds that use historiograpghy alot, from social history to poltical history, and also cultural history. Popkin’s main idea, that historiograghy is important to the feild of History majors because of the way it allows for new discoveries and ideas to be formed to help get the closest truth about why, or how, something happened, is very important to students and how important it is to get a grasp as early as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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