historiography
noun
his·to·ri·og·ra·phy hi-ˌstȯr-ē-ˈä-grə-fē 
1
a
: the writing of history
especially : the writing of history based on the critical examination of sources, the selection of particulars from the authentic materials, and the synthesis of particulars into a narrative that will stand the test of critical methods
b
: the principles, theory, and history of historical writing
a course in historiography
2
: the product of historical writing : a body of historical literature
a survey of the country's historiography
historiographical
hi-ˌstȯr-ē-ə-ˈgra-fi-kəl
adjective or less commonly historiographic
hi-ˌstȯr-ē-ə-ˈgra-fik
historiographically
hi-ˌstȯr-ē-ə-ˈgra-fi-k(ə-)lē
adverb 
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web No wonder historians tend to avoid historiography, writing about how history is written. 
Dominic Green, WSJ, 20 May 2022 The mountain of Marxist historiography is, like the Scholasticism of the Middle Ages, a monument to faith turned tyrannical. Dominic Green, WSJ, 20 May 2022 In Russian historiography, the conflict is known as the Great Patriotic War, which began when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, in June, 1941, and ended when Soviet soldiers planted a red flag on the Reichstag, in May, 1945. Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022 The play’s message that alliance with Moscow was a tragedy for Ukraine directly contradicted official imperial historiography, and it was neither published nor performed until after the collapse of the empire. Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022 Typically, historiography of arcane intradisciplinary wrangling among grammatical theorists would not get that far. Geoffrey K. Pullum, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022 But in a sense, these arguments themselves may represent the apotheosis of our historiography. New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021 For them, the culture war of the 1990s was clearly connected to the upheaval in American historiography. New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021 Still, his anger served as a reminder of how much of Spain’s national historiography remained unchallenged. Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2021 See More
Dominic Green, WSJ, 20 May 2022 The mountain of Marxist historiography is, like the Scholasticism of the Middle Ages, a monument to faith turned tyrannical. Dominic Green, WSJ, 20 May 2022 In Russian historiography, the conflict is known as the Great Patriotic War, which began when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, in June, 1941, and ended when Soviet soldiers planted a red flag on the Reichstag, in May, 1945. Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022 The play’s message that alliance with Moscow was a tragedy for Ukraine directly contradicted official imperial historiography, and it was neither published nor performed until after the collapse of the empire. Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022 Typically, historiography of arcane intradisciplinary wrangling among grammatical theorists would not get that far. Geoffrey K. Pullum, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022 But in a sense, these arguments themselves may represent the apotheosis of our historiography. New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021 For them, the culture war of the 1990s was clearly connected to the upheaval in American historiography. New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021 Still, his anger served as a reminder of how much of Spain’s national historiography remained unchallenged. Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
see historiographer
First Known Use
1569, in the meaning defined at sense 1a