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'''Historiography''' is "the writing of [[history]]", or otherwise-preserving of historical facts to the generations in hence of the eyewitnesses of the events.
'''Historiography''' is "the writing of [[history]]", or otherwise-preserving of historical facts to the generations in hence of the eyewitnesses of the events.
In the bulk of cases, this writing, or preserving, of a future knowledge of past events is based on such things as "the critical examination of sources, the selection of particulars from the authentic materials, and the synthesis of particulars into a narrative that will stand the test of critical methods."<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/historiography Historiography - Merriam-Webster dictionary]</ref>
In the bulk of cases, this writing, or preserving, of a future knowledge of past events is based on such things as "the critical examination of sources, the selection of particulars from the authentic materials, and the synthesis of particulars into a narrative that will stand the test of critical methods."<ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/historiography Historiography - Merriam-Webster dictionary]</ref>
But this bulk of cases is made so partly by the fact that most documentations of history are created by those individuals who, by inspiration of some kind of journalistic desire, set out to gather the facts from eyewitnesses and other sources. In other words, both most preserved narratives of, and most narratives purporting to be, accurate of the pasts they respectively claim to represent are constructed by persons who were not eyewitnesses of the events. In short, the bulk of historiography is a kind of secular academic exercise of carefully, in many cases painstakingly, confirming the sources.
But this bulk of cases is made so partly by the fact that most documentations of history are created by those individuals who, by inspiration of some kind of journalistic desire, set out to gather the facts from eyewitnesses and other sources. In other words, both most preserved narratives of, and most narratives purporting to be, accurate of the pasts they respectively claim to represent are constructed by persons who were not eyewitnesses of the events. In short, the bulk of historiography is a kind of secular academic exercise of carefully, in many cases painstakingly, confirming the sources.