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Excerpt --- http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/writing/history/critical/historiography....
"In a nutshell, historiography is the history of history. Rather than subjecting actual events - say, Hitler's annexation of Austria - to historical analysis, the subject of historiography is the history of the history of the event: the way it has been written, the sometimes conflicting objectives pursued by those writing on it over time, and the way in which such factors shape our understanding of the actual event at stake, and of the nature of history itself."
Questions of historiography include the following:
--- who writes history, with what agenda in mind, and towards what ends? --- how accurate can a historian ever hope to be, analyzing past events from the vantage point of the historian's present? --- does the historian's own perspective, impacted as it undoubtedly is by gender, age, national and ideological affiliation, etc., contribute to an "agenda" that the historian's work is playing into, unwittingly or consciously? --- what about the types of sources, both primary and secondary, an historian chooses to base his or her work upon? Do they too contribute to the above-mentioned "agenda"? --- does the very selection of sources (and, by extension, the decision to exclude certain other sources) prejudice the outcome of the historian's work in certain ways?
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Nothing happens in a vacuum. Humans are the product of biology and environment. Genetic Genealogy offers great promise with DNA testing in understanding family history. Studying Historiography offers great promise with understanding the context when interpreting family history.
Genealogy is a science and though information may be personal, a person must vigilant against researcher's bias. The most frequent type of researcher's bias is the intellectual trap, Presentism.
The purpose of this project is to present and discussed the zeitgeist of history; how the history of events has changed over time in terms how societal attitudes, terminology impact the evolution of cultural mores and norms ...and vice versa.
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Timeline Of Disease and Vaccines -- http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/timelines/diseases-and-vac...
Timeline of Disease and Epidemics' http://www.angelfire.com/indie/lynx/timeline.html
Old Names of Diseases http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ms/county/lauderdale/Odds/Diseases.htm
Old Names of Vocations http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ms/county/lauderdale/Odds/Vocations.htm