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Metahistory is a historiography book by Hayden White first published in 1974. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... Historiography is the study of the practice of history. ... Insert non-formatted text hereHayden White(1928-3012) is an historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1973). ...

In Metahistory, White rejects the notion that historians or journalists are able to write about the past or present as it actually happens. Instead he defines archetypes of historians with specific characteristics who approach history with different types of narratives. The medium (the type of narrative) is the integral message of the history. White provides a system intended to de-mystify histories, historians, news reports, and journalists who claim to present things objectively. He also proposes some methods for determining in what ways a given account lacks complete objectivity and how it can be seen as ultimately ideological. A historian is someone who writes history, and history is a written accounting of the past. ... Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting news regarding current events, trends, issues and people. ... An archetype is a generic, idealized model of a person, object or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned or emulated. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... System (from the Latin (systēma), and this from the Greek (sustēma)) is an assemblage of entity/objects, real or abstract, comprising a whole with each and every component/element interacting or related to at least one other component/element. ... NEWS is the abbreviation of North,East,West,South. ... Objectivity is frequently held to be essential to journalistic professionalism (particularly in the United States); however, there is some disagreement about what the concept consists of. ... An ideology is an organized collection of ideas. ...

References

• Hayden White, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1974 ISBN 0-8018-1761-7
• Hayden White’s Metahistory by Joshua Walker, 2002, Stanford. A summary.