Meaning & use
historiographical
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Relating to the study of the methods, sources, and interpretive approaches used by historians in writing history.
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The professor's lecture examined the historiographical debate over the causes of the French Revolution.
Her thesis offers a historiographical survey of how slavery has been portrayed in American textbooks.
A note on using this word
The word derives from "historiography," the study of how history is written, rather than history itself.
Words with a similar meaning
historical-methodological
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