History 8
History 8
History 8
Military history
Military history concerns warfare, strategies, battles, weapons, and the psychology of combat. The "new military history" since the
1970s has been concerned with soldiers more than generals, with psychology more than tactics, and with the broader impact of
warfare on society and culture.[39]
History of religion
The history of religion has been a main theme for both secular and religious historians for centuries, and continues to be taught in
seminaries and academe. Leading journals include Church History, The Catholic Historical Review, and History of Religions. Topics
range widely from political and cultural and artistic dimensions, to theology and liturgy.[40] This subject studies religions from all
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regions and areas of the world where humans have lived.
Social history
Social history, sometimes called the new social history, is the field that includes history of ordinary people and their strategies and
institutions for coping with life.[42] In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is
well represented in history departments. In two decades from 1975 to 1995, the proportion of professors of history in American
universities identifying with social history rose from 31% to 41%, while the proportion of political historians fell from 40% to
30%.[43] In the history departments of British universities in 2007, of the 5723 faculty members, 1644 (29%) identified themselves
with social history while political history came next with 1425 (25%).[44] The "old" social history before the 1960s was a
hodgepodge of topics without a central theme, and it often included political movements, like Populism, that were "social" in the
sense of being outside the elite system. Social history was contrasted withpolitical history, intellectual history and the history of great