What is History? is a 1961 nonfiction book by historian Edward Hallet Carr on historiography. It discusses history, facts, the bias of historians, science, morality, individuals and society, and moral judgements in history. Edward Hallett Carr (1892–1982) was a British historian and international relations theorist. ... Historiography is writing about rather than of history. ...
The book originated in a series of lectures given by Carr in 1961 at the University of Cambridge. The lectures were intended as a broad introduction into the subject of the theory of history and their accessibility has resulted in What is History? becoming one of the key texts in the field of historiography. Historiography is writing about rather than of history. ...
Nevertheless, some of Carr's ideas are contentious, particularly his relativism and his rejection of contingency as an important factor in historical analysis. His work provoked a number of responses, most notably Geoffrey Elton's classic work, The Practice of History. Relativism is the view that the meaning and value of human beliefs and behaviors have no absolute reference. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Carr was in the process of revising What is History? for a second edition at the time of his death.
History has been taught at Yale since President Thomas Clap introduced specifically historical courses in the 1760s, and the Department of History has existed since 1919, when Yale first divided its faculty into academic departments.
History was a popular course of study when majors first were introduced after World War I, and it became the largest major in the 1950s.
Yale awarded its first History Ph.D. in 1882 to Clarence Winthrop Bowen for a dissertation entitled "The Boundaries of Connecticut," which was published in the same year.
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