Historical classification groups the various history topics into different categories according to subject matter as shown below.
Meta-history edit
By geographic region edit
By geographic subregion edit
By date edit
By time period edit
See also Periodization.
By religion edit
- History of religion
- History of Christianity
- History of Islam
- Jewish history
- History of Buddhism
- Hinduism History of Hinduism
By nation edit
By field edit
- Cultural movements
- Diaspora studies
- Family history
- Environmental history
- Local history
- Maritime history
- Microhistory
- Confederation
- Social History
- Urban History
Mathematics and the hard sciences edit
- History of mathematics
- History of science and technology
- History of astronomy
- History of physics
- History of chemistry
- History of geology
- History of biology
- History of medicine
- History of mental illness
Social sciences edit
By ideological classification (historiography) edit
Although there is arguably some intrinsic bias in history studies (with national bias perhaps being the most significant), history can also be studied from ideological perspectives, which practitioners feel are often ignored, such as:
- Marxist historiography
- Feminist history (also called herstory).
A form of historical speculation known commonly as counterfactual history has also been adopted by some historians as a means of assessing and exploring the possible outcomes if certain events had not occurred or had occurred in a different way. This is somewhat similar to the alternate history genre in fiction.
Lists of false or dubious historical resources and historical myths that were once popular and widespread, or have become so, have also been prepared.