User:Vir/sandbox/outline of history

=An Outline of History= This is an exercise in classification.

Biography

 * Autobiography
 * Family history
 * Geneology
 * Historians
 * Archeologists
 * Art historians
 * Cosmologists
 * Social historians
 * Paleontologists, etc.

Cultural and Social history

 * History of the world (human)
 * Universal history (social)
 * Area studies

Cultural history
(both a field of study and an historical-anthropological method)
 * Cultural movements
 * Cultural studies
 * Diaspora studies
 * Local history
 * Family history
 * Historical development of art history
 * History of ethnic groups: see articles in List of ethnic groups
 * Gender studies
 * History of feminism

History of the arts

 * History of architecture
 * History of art
 * History of the visual arts
 * History of painting
 * History of sculpture
 * History painter
 * Western art history
 * Eastern art history
 * History of cinema
 * History of decorative arts
 * History of literature
 * History of music
 * History of theatre

History of language

 * Origin of language
 * Proto-World language
 * Historical linguistics
 * Language families (Some language family articles have histories or links to such.)
 * (largest language families)
 * Niger-Congo (1514 languages)
 * Austronesian (1268 languages)
 * Trans-New Guinea (564 languages) (validity disputed)
 * Indo-European languages (449 languages)
 * History of the English language
 * Sino-Tibetan (403 languages)
 * Afro-Asiatic (375 languages)
 * Nilo-Saharan (204 languages)

History of philosophy

 * History of ideas
 * Intellectual history

History of religion and spirituality

 * History of Christianity
 * History of Roman Catholicism
 * History of Protestantism
 * History of Buddhism
 * History of Hinduism
 * History of Judaism
 * History of Islam


 * History of Esotericism
 * History of astrology
 * History of alchemy


 * History of Spirituality
 * Meditation
 * Prayer
 * Yoga

Economic and Political History

 * Diplomatic history
 * Economic history
 * History of economic thought
 * History of nation states
 * History of present-day nations and states
 * List of extinct states
 * Legal history
 * Military history
 * Numismatics
 * Political history

History of science and technology

 * History of mathematics
 * Timeline of mathematics


 * History of medicine
 * History of mental illness


 * History of science
 * History of selected Hard sciences and Mathematics
 * History of selected Social sciences
 * History of science in early cultures
 * History of science in Classical Antiquity
 * History of science in the Middle Ages
 * History of science in the Renaissance
 * Scientific Revolution


 * History of technology (See links)


 * Timelines: List of timelines, Science
 * Timeline of cosmology
 * Timeline of geography, paleontology
 * Timeline of scientific discoveries

Social Sciences
(Note: Scholars of history draw on the social sciences and vice-versa. Various social science subfields focus on historical phenomena and processes. These subfields are sometimes distinct from the fields of history above. Many social science disciplines have their own history subfields, both of their discipline and for using historical methods. Anthropological subfields especially are defined by the use of a variety of historical methods. )

Anthropology and Sociology

 * History of anthropology
 * Archeology
 * Cultural anthropology
 * Linguistic anthropology
 * Physical anthropology


 * History of sociology
 * Comparative and historical sociology, a recognized subfield of sociology
 * [[Subfields of sociology|Sociological subfields], historical perspectives are used in many of these subfields

Economics and Politics

 * Economic history
 * History of economic thought
 * Political history
 * History of political science
 * Legal history

Natural history
(Historically, natural history is conflated with natural science.)
 * Geological history
 * Geologic time scale
 * History of Earth
 * History of evolution
 * Timeline of evolution
 * Human evolution
 * Paleontology
 * Origin of life
 * Physical cosmology
 * Timeline of the Big Bang
 * Ultimate fate of the universe

Historical methods and Historiography

 * Annales School
 * History from below
 * Archontology
 * Big History
 * Chronologies
 * Cultural history
 * Gender studies
 * Histoire des mentalités
 * New history
 * Historical classification
 * By geographic region
 * By date
 * By time period
 * By field (of study)
 * By nation
 * By religion
 * Historical concepts, selected
 * Causality
 * Event
 * Periodization
 * Pseudohistory
 * Time
 * Historical materialist historiography or Marxist historiography
 * Historical revisionism
 * Historiography and Historiophoty
 * History painter
 * Hypergraphy
 * Metahistory
 * Microhistory
 * Narratives
 * Oral history
 * Paleography
 * Prosopography
 * Psychogeography
 * Psychohistory
 * Quantitative history
 * World History (as an approach)

Hypothetical histories

 * Counterfactual history and Historical fiction
 * Alternative history
 * Virtual history
 * Future history (in science fiction)
 * Future studies
 * Futurology

Philosophy of history
(aka Historiosophy)
 * Deconstruction
 * Eschatology
 * Hegelianism
 * Historical materialism
 * Philosophical naturalism
 * Postmodernism
 * Teleology
 * Theodicy

Religious cosmology

 * Biblical cosmology
 * Buddhist cosmology
 * Creationist cosmologies and Intelligent design
 * Esoteric cosmology
 * Indigenous cosmologies
 * Sufi cosmology
 * Taoist cosmology
 * Vedic cosmology