An Outline of History edit
This is an exercise in classification.
Biography edit
History: Fields of study edit
Cultural and Social history edit
- History of the world (human)
- Universal history (social)
- Area studies
Cultural history edit
(both a field of study and an historical-anthropological method)
- Cultural movements
- Cultural studies
- Diaspora studies
- Local history
- Family history
- Historical development of art history
- History of ethnic groups: see articles in List of ethnic groups
- Gender studies
History of the arts edit
History of language edit
- Origin of language
- Proto-World language
- Historical linguistics
- Language families (Some language family articles have histories or links to such.)
- (largest language families)
- Niger-Congo (1514 languages)
- Austronesian (1268 languages)
- Trans-New Guinea (564 languages) (validity disputed)
- Indo-European languages (449 languages)
- Sino-Tibetan (403 languages)
- Afro-Asiatic (375 languages)
- Nilo-Saharan (204 languages)
History of philosophy edit
History of religion and spirituality edit
- History of Esotericism
- History of Spirituality
History of Society and History in Social Sciences edit
Economic and Political History edit
History of science and technology edit
- History of technology (See links)
Social Sciences edit
(Note: Scholars of history draw on the social sciences and vice-versa. Various social science subfields focus on historical phenomena and processes. These subfields are sometimes distinct from the fields of history above. Many social science disciplines have their own history subfields, both of their discipline and for using historical methods. Anthropological subfields especially are defined by the use of a variety of historical methods. )
Anthropology and Sociology edit
- History of sociology
- Comparative and historical sociology, a recognized subfield of sociology
- [[Subfields of sociology|Sociological subfields], historical perspectives are used in many of these subfields
- History of sociology
Economics and Politics edit
Natural history edit
(Historically, natural history is conflated with natural science.)
History: Methods, Philosophy and Types edit
Historical methods and Historiography edit
- Annales School
- Archontology
- Big History
- Chronologies
- Cultural history
- Gender studies
- Historical classification
- Historical concepts, selected
- Historical materialist historiography or Marxist historiography
- Historical revisionism
- Historiography and Historiophoty
- History painter
- Hypergraphy
- Metahistory
- Microhistory
- Narratives
- Oral history
- Paleography
- Prosopography
- Psychogeography
- Psychohistory
- Quantitative history
- World History (as an approach)
Hypothetical histories edit
- Counterfactual history and Historical fiction
- Future studies
Philosophy of history edit
(aka Historiosophy)