What is the difference between History and Historiography

Furay and Salevouris (1988) argued that in learning historiography, it is more about changing the interpretation of that event as explained by different historians (Furay and Salevouris). Therefore, through the reference on turner’s theory, we will discuss the difference between history and historiography. According to William Cronon in his journal on ‘Revisiting the Vanishing Frontier,' he notes that Fredrick Turner in his books and articles wrote about the frontier thesis, where he did a study about land being in existence, recession being experienced and how the Americans settled on the west (Cronon, William). Turner argued that, in the frontier, other communities isolated themselves from the ethnic minorities. Turner’s work remains to be the primary source of information on the western history which mainly discusses the American past.

It would have to focus on areas which had been ignored, which were home to many of his students. This history would outsource techniques to help them in interpreting statistical procedures and would set the American history to records of history from parts of the world, enabling the history of ordinary people to have the significance they deserved. Turner depicted that since the present requires the past, and that local history should be part of history from other parts of the world and as such history has unity and continuity. Lessons learned from Turner’s seminar show that he championed for social history, quantification, interdisciplinary studies and searched for relevant past and thus change in vocabulary to match the recent generation.

The creation of new academic profession that explored the history of a continent genuinely gave his students flexibility and allowed the students to choose their research topics which were broadly based on the American history thus building on their profession. The movie evidently shows that even though the settlers and the natives were sworn enemies, the native led the settlers in the area of Oregon where they finally settled thus explaining the history of the Americans in the Oregon area. The frontier thesis is simple and can make the American history to be known, and it supplies a rhetorical connection between the facts which then provides a broader sense of order and unity and thus maintaining the narrative strength. Therefore, the most useful element in Turner’s frontier is the explanation of histories from other parts of the world combined and studied and enabling the development of other communities.