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Historically black colleges and universities
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs): U.S. institutions founded before 1964 with the principal mission of educating Black Americans, defined under Title III of the Higher Education Act, rooted in the 1862 and 1890 Morrill Acts and supported by federal programs.
Historically significant lunar eclipses
Historically significant lunar eclipses are recorded eclipses that changed events, anchored calendars, or supplied scientific data, from omens before ancient battles to records that now measure changes in Earth's rotation.
Historicism
Historicism (German Historismus) covers theories treating human phenomena as historically situated, from Ranke's contextualist tradition to Popper's target of predictive historical laws; the term spans conflicting meanings.
Historicity of Jesus
The historicity of Jesus is the question of whether Jesus of Nazareth really existed. Most historians agree a Jewish preacher was crucified under Pontius Pilate around 30 CE.
Histories (Ἱστορίαι) (Herodotus)
Histories (Ἱστορίαι), Herodotus of Halicarnassus's account of the Persian Empire and the Persian Wars of 490–479 BCE; earliest Greek narrative history, built from logoi, contested as source.
Historiography
Historiography: the study of how history is written, covering source criticism, schools such as Marxist, Annales, feminist, and Subaltern Studies, and the digital turn in archives and methods.
Historiography and periodization of physics
The historiography and periodization of physics is the study of how physics history is divided into periods, contrasting the textbook classical/modern split around 1900 with historians' finer schemes.
Historiography Institute (Shiguan)
The Historiography Institute (史馆, shiguan) was the Tang dynasty government office charged with compiling official histories, including dynastic annals, veritable records, and daily calendars of court activity.
Historiography of broadcasting
Historiography of broadcasting is the study of how the history of radio and television has been researched and written, tracking methods, institutions, and debates internationally.
Historiography of ideologies
The historiography of ideologies is the study of how scholars have written about political ideologies historically, tracing the concept from Marx and Mannheim through the Cambridge school and Begriffsgeschichte.
Historiography of science
The historiography of science is the study of how the history of science is written, including debates over internal versus social explanations of scientific development.
Historiography of the USSR Academy of Sciences
The historiography of the USSR Academy of Sciences is the scholarly literature on the Soviet Academy, spanning official Soviet histories, Western Cold War studies, and post-1991 archival research.
History
History, from Greek historia (inquiry), is the discipline studying the human past through critical evaluation of primary and secondary sources, historical method, historiography, the Annales School, oral and public history.
HIStory (2017 TV series)
HIStory is a Taiwanese BL anthology streaming series produced by CHOCO TV (later LINE TV), first aired February 14, 2017. Nine stand-alone units across five seasons ran to 2023; season 1 drew 3.5 million views in three months and was the first Taiwanese web drama exported to Japan.
History and classification of congenital disorders of glycosylation
Congenital disorders of glycosylation, first described by Jaak Jaeken in 1980 as CDGS, were renamed at a 1999 workshop and have grown to about 200 inherited disorders.
History and culture of substituted amphetamines
The history and culture of substituted amphetamines traces amphetamine, methamphetamine, and MDMA from first synthesis in 1887 through wartime use, the 1970 drug controls, and the ecstasy-fueled British rave scene.
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (HPLS) is a peer-reviewed quarterly on historical, philosophical, and societal studies of the life sciences; founded 1979 in Florence by Mirko Grmek, now published by Springer, Impact Factor 1.6 (2023).
History and reform of the UK tribunal system
History and reform of the UK tribunal system: from the Franks Report (1957) and Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1958, through Leggatt (2001), to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007's unified First-tier and Upper Tribunals and the HMCTS digitisation programme.
History and research directions of rheumatoid arthritis
The history of rheumatoid arthritis spans two centuries since its 1800 description, from gold salts to biologics, with research now focused on prediction, prevention, and precision medicine.
History and Theory
History and Theory is a quarterly academic journal of the theory and philosophy of history, founded in 1960 by George Nadel and owned and edited by Wesleyan University since 1965.
History Channel
History Channel (History), American cable network launched January 1, 1995 by A&E Networks; began as WWII-heavy documentary channel nicknamed the Hitler Channel, rebranded History in 2008, and shifted to reality shows and Ancient Aliens pseudoscience.
History of abortion
History of abortion: from Egyptian papyri (Kahun, Ebers) and the Hippocratic Oath, through medieval criminalization and the 1803 British and 1821 US bans, to Roe v. Wade, its 2022 reversal, and WHO safe-abortion guidance.
History of accounting
The history of accounting follows financial record-keeping from Sumerian clay tokens around 3250 BC to double entry in Genoa by 1340, Pacioli's 1494 treatise, and the first professional body in Edinburgh in 1853.
History of adult television networks
History of adult television networks: subscription and pay-per-view channels carrying sexually explicit programming, from HBO's 1972 launch and the 1982 Playboy Channel through Playboy's Spice and Vivid acquisitions, TEN, Section 505 litigation, and later decline as streaming displaced linear adult channels.
History of advertising
The history of advertising runs from painted walls in Roman Pompeii and town criers to the first agency in 1840 and digital media's 57.7% share of global spending in 2023.
History of aerial warfare
The History of aerial warfare is the record of military forces using the air for observation and attack, evolving from 1861 balloon reconnaissance to modern drone-dominated battlefields.
History of Afghanistan
History of Afghanistan: from Bronze Age urban civilizations and Achaemenid rule through the Durrani Empire founded in 1747, the Anglo-Afghan wars and Great Game, the 1978 communist coup and 1979 Soviet invasion, to the Taliban's 2021 return to power.
History of Africa
History of Africa: the continent's past from Homo sapiens origins ~200,000 years ago through trans-Saharan trade, Mali, the Atlantic slave trade (10–13 million enslaved), colonial rule 1890–1960, decolonization, and the UNESCO General History of Africa project.
History of agriculture
History of agriculture: the independent development of plant cultivation and animal husbandry in perhaps 20 world regions from about 12,000 years ago, covering the Fertile Crescent, Yangtze rice, Indus Valley dating, Africa, and the Green Revolution.
History of agriculture in the Indian subcontinent
History of agriculture in the Indian subcontinent: from Mehrgarh's early farming (revised to 5200-4900 BCE), Indus irrigated surplus agriculture, Mughal dahsala revenue, colonial famines, to the 1960s Green Revolution in Punjab.