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An Outline of History

This is an exercise in classification.

Biography

Autobiography
Family history
Geneology
Historians
- Archeologists
- Art historians
- Cosmologists
- Social historians
- Paleontologists, etc.

History: Fields of study

Cultural and Social history

- History of the world (human)
- Universal history (social)
- Area studies

Cultural history

(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 feminism

History of the arts

History of language

- 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)
    - History of the English language
  - Sino-Tibetan (403 languages)
  - Afro-Asiatic (375 languages)
  - Nilo-Saharan (204 languages)

History of philosophy

- - History of ideas
  - Intellectual history

History of religion and spirituality

- - History of Esotericism
    - History of astrology
    - History of alchemy

- - History of Spirituality
    - Meditation
    - Prayer
    - Yoga

History of Society and History in Social Sciences

Economic and Political History

History of science and technology

- History of mathematics
  - Timeline of mathematics

- History of medicine
  - History of mental illness

- History of science
  - History of selected Hard sciences and Mathematics
  - History of selected Social sciences
  - History of science in early cultures
  - History of science in Classical Antiquity
  - History of science in the Middle Ages
  - History of science in the Renaissance
  - Scientific Revolution

- History of technology (See links)

- Timelines: List of timelines, Science

Social Sciences

(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

- History of anthropology

- 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

Economics and Politics

- Economic history
  - History of economic thought
- Political history
  - History of political science
  - Legal history

Natural history

(Historically, natural history is conflated with natural science.)

- Geological history
  - Geologic time scale
  - History of Earth
- History of evolution
  - Timeline of evolution
  - Human evolution
- Paleontology
  - Origin of life
- Physical cosmology
  - Timeline of the Big Bang
  - Ultimate fate of the universe

History: Methods, Philosophy and Types

Historical methods and Historiography

- Annales School
  - History from below
- Archontology
- Big History
- Chronologies
- Cultural history
- Gender studies
  - Histoire des mentalités
  - New history
- Historical classification
  - By geographic region
  - By date
  - By time period
  - By field (of study)
  - By nation
  - By religion
- Historical concepts, selected
  - Causality
  - Event
  - Periodization
  - Pseudohistory
  - Time
- 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

- Counterfactual history and Historical fiction
- Future studies
  - Futurology

Philosophy of history

(aka Historiosophy)

Religious cosmology

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