Portal:Sciences of History
Top level portal for Class C: Sciences of History.
Auxiliary sciences of history are academic disciplines which help evaluate and use historical sources and are seen as auxiliary for historical research.
Historiography is the study of the history and methodology of the discipline of history.
The history of civilization covers civilization with respect to geography, technology, war and other topics; as well as its origins and forecasts for its future.
Archaeology is the study of human society. Primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material evidence they have left behind.
Diplomatics is study and textual analysis of documents; particularly, but not limited to, historical documents.
Archives are collections of historical records, containing primary source documents that have been accumulated within the collection.
Seals are impressions made in a medium such as wax, intended to authenticate a document.
Technical chronology and calendar covers to system and practice of organizing days for assorted purposes and recording sequences of events.
Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, and related objects.
The Historians' History of the World title page
Inscriptions and epigraphy covers carved text and the study there of.
Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of creating, granting, and blazoning arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol.
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history.
A biography account of someone's life. Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life.
Child portals: Animal biographies • Autobiographies • Obituaries
People portals: Joe Hooper • Abdullah Khadr • Clifford Sims • George Thurston • Aymer de Valence
- External links
- Class C on Project Gutenberg
- Call number C on the Online Books Page
Works
- The Science of History and the Hope of Mankind (1912) by Benoy Kumar Sarkar (transcription project)