These are approaches to history; not listed are histories of other fields, such as history of science, history of mathematics and history of philosophy.
- Ancient history : the study from the beginning of human history until the Early Middle Ages.
- Atlantic history: the study of the history of people living on or near the Atlantic Ocean.
- Art History: the study of changes in and social context of art.
- Big History: study of history on a large scale across long time frames and epochs through a multi-disciplinary approach.
- Chronology: science of localizing historical events in time.
- Comparative history: historical analysis of social and cultural entities not confined to national boundaries.
- Contemporary history: the study of historical events that are immediately relevant to the present time.
- Counterfactual history: the study of historical events as they might have happened in different causal circumstances.
- Cultural history: the study of culture in the past.
- Digital History: the use of computing technologies to produce digital scholarship.
- Economic History: the study of economies in the past.
- Futurology: study of the future: researches the medium to long-term future of societies and of the physical world.
- Intellectual history: the study of ideas in the context of the cultures that produced them and their development over time.
- Maritime history: the study of maritime transport and all the connected subjects.
- Modern history : the study of the Modern Times, the era after the Middle Ages.
- Military History: the study of warfare and wars in history and what is sometimes considered to be a sub-branch of military history, Naval History.
- Natural history: the study of the development of the cosmos, the Earth, biology and interactions thereof.
- Paleography: study of ancient texts.
- People's history: historical work from the perspective of common people.
- Political history: the study of politics in the past.
- Psychohistory: study of the psychological motivations of historical events.
- Pseudohistory: study about the past that falls outside the domain of mainstream history (sometimes it is an equivalent of pseudoscience).
- Social History: the study of the process of social change throughout history.
- Universal history: basic to the Western tradition of historiography.
- Women's history: the history of female human beings. Gender history is related and covers the perspective of gender.
- World History: the study of history from a global perspective.
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