Historiography is history as knowledge production.
It analyzes how historians have written about history, how the past has been researched, organized, understood, debated and written about generally and on particular topics. This course will identify major interpretations that historians have developed to understand and explain their work. Those interpretations and debates about interpretations are what comprises historical knowledge and are what many historians are most concerned about. In addition, we will talk about the nature of historical study, and the broad uses of the historical methodology in our culture. Since this course is designed as a seminar, it will be taught with a combination of lecture and discussion.