Branches
- Archaeology – study of past human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data
- Archontology – study of historical offices and important positions in state, international, political, religious and other organizations and societies
- Art history – the study of changes in and social context of art
- Chronology – locating events in time
- Cultural history – the study of culture in the past
- History of science – the study of the emergence and development of scientific inquiry
- Economic history – the study of economies in the past
- Environmental history – study of natural history and the human relationship with the natural world
- Forest history – study of the natural history of forests and human relationships with them
- Futurology – study of the future: researches the medium to long-term future of societies and of the physical world
- History painting – the painting of works of art having historical motifs or depicting great events
- Military history – the study of warfare and wars in history
- Natural history – history of the natural world, now usually referred to as science
- Naval history – the branch of military history devoted to warfare at sea or in bodies of water
- Paleography – the study of ancient texts
- Political history – the study of past political events, ideas, movements, and leaders
- Public history – the presentation of history to public audiences and other areas typically outside academia
- Psychohistory – study of the psychological motivations of historical events
- Social history – the study of societies and social trends in the past
- World history – the study of global historical trends and dynamics
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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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Oh how hideous it is
To see three generations of one house gathered together!
It is like an old tree with shoots,
And with some branches rotted and falling.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)