https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/3-2015-11/why-historical-narrative-matters/
A scholarly article that explores the importance of historical narratives for people's identity, orientation, and action. It argues that historical narratives are not just facts, but complex mental constructions that need to be challenged and transformed in school.

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174493
The historical narrative of one side may reflect historical truth more than the historical narrative of the other. Indeed, in general, one may be subjective and right. Still, conceptually, the two

https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2018/summer/nathan-connolly-on-studying-retelling-history/
Historian Nathan Connolly explains how narrative is a way of organizing historical information, but also a way of making choices and distorting the past. He discusses the challenges and responsibilities of writing historical narratives with power and accuracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_history
Narrative history is the practice of writing history in a story-based form. It tends to entail history-writing based on reconstructing series of short-term events, and ever since the influential work of Leopold von Ranke on professionalising history-writing in the nineteenth century has been associated with empiricism.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180423-how-stories-have-shaped-the-world
How stories have shaped the world. 23 April 2018. By Martin Puchner,Features correspondent. Rebecca Hendin. From ancient epics to modern novels, some narratives have changed history and influenced

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-69420-7_7
This chapter explores how historical and cultural narratives shape people's worldviews, identities and behaviors across generations. It argues that intercultural understanding and world peace depend on listening to and respecting the narratives of others, especially those of traumatic and heroic events.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/historiography
Historiography is the writing of history based on critical examination of sources and synthesis of details into a narrative. Learn about the history of historiography, its methods, and its subjects from ancient to modern times.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2020052239/
"For all of the recent debates over the methods and theoretical underpinnings of the historical profession, scholars and laypeople alike still frequently think of history in terms of storytelling. Accordingly, historians and theorists have devoted much attention to how historical narratives work, illuminating the ways they can bind together events, shape an argument and lend support to ideology.

https://nieman.harvard.edu/articles/historical-writing-and-the-revival-of-narrative/
How did narrative history and narrative journalism emerge in the 1970s as responses to structural and quantitative trends? How do they use similar devices, subjects and techniques to tell stories with pregnant principles?

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781800730472/html
A collection of essays on how historians and other actors use narratives to frame the past in different contexts and media. The book explores the textual strategies, ideological implications and historical effects of historical narratives from ancient Greece to modern-day bestsellers.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2tsxk1c
This chapter focuses on the observation that narratives aiming at the legitimization, historicity and interconnection of societies are an inherent part of present-day portrayals of medieval history. This phenomenon could already be observed in the early nineteenth century, when the nation-states began to form in Europe.

https://phi.history.ucla.edu/nchs/historical-thinking-standards/3-historical-analysis-interpretation/
Learn how to read and evaluate historical narratives and arguments, and how to challenge historical inevitability and contingency. This web page provides historical thinking standards and examples for students and teachers of history.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-52908-4_23
This chapter builds on the concepts of historical culture and historical consciousness to examine the relationship between history education and civic education, particularly regarding the role of historical narratives in the construction of civic culture and identities understood in the framework of New Civics.New Civics has redefined civic education, expanding the concept of civic action

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-57171-3_2
Historical narratives play an inevitable role in post-conflict settings, whether we talk about a past that has been experienced directly or a distant history transmitted via books, television, the Internet, or other forms of media. It is important to recognize that the memory and stories that give expression to memory are not static phenomena

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2505047
An historical narrative is tied to the medium of memory. It mobilizes the ex-perience of past time, which is engraved in the archives of memory, so that the experience of present time becomes understandable and the expectation of future time is possible. 2. An historical narrative organizes the internal unity of these three dimensions

https://www.britannica.com/topic/historiography/From-explanation-to-interpretation
The historical narrative should consist only of true statements (that is, those most consonant with the appropriate evidence), but in making them into a narrative the historian draws on the same sorts of plots and metaphors that are common to generic narratives. Their readers are prepared to believe them not just because they accept that all

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03468755.2021.2019107
We consider how historical narratives can be located and interpreted, assess cooperation between narratology and history, and suggest possible lines for further collaboration. Whereas the linguistic turn in historical scholarship has produced extensive theoretical and philosophical discussions on the premises of writing history, we aim to

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2505046
In practice, an historical narrative is usually a mixture of an-. nalist's statements, chronicler's statements, and strictly historical statements, both prospective and retrospective-and-prospective. It is a strictly historical narrative if the use of prospective time is always present in it and works as its assumption.

https://diymfa.com/writing/elements-historical-narrative/
The elements of a good historical narrative. Whatever your source of inspiration, I postulate that it falls into one of six basic categories: time, place, person (s), event (s), culture, or legend. Some might argue that culture is nothing more than the convergence of time and place—and in some cases, that's true.

https://oxfordre.com/literature/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-116
Even after successive ur-narratives, foundational fictions, master-narratives, and grand historical narratives all started to crumble under the combined fire of the sciences (each with its own field restrictions and limited purpose), the defeats of utopias, the experience of disaster, and the rebellion of the masses, a global narrative vision

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2019.1633735
The articles explore ways that students, teachers, and communities resist these narratives and create spaces for new stories and ways of knowing through a process of counter storytelling. Trouillot's ( 1995) notion of historical silences is about more than the common expression: "History is written by the victors.".

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/arts/john-jacobs-slavery-discovery.html
Schroeder came upon John Jacobs's 1855 narrative by an odd back door. Back in 2017, he was fresh out of graduate school in English, and trying to turn his Ph.D. dissertation about the history of

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/nazi-period-series-legacy-and-lessons/id1742844865
Discover the untold stories and hidden truths of the Nazi era with "Nazi Period Series: Legacy and Lessons," an enlightening podcast series hosted by Dr. Jonny Hudson, a revered Holocaust scholar. This series penetrates the surface of mainstream historical narratives to explore the profound complexities and lesser-known aspects of the Nazi period.

https://stereotypes.africa.si.edu/historical-narratives/
Historical Narratives. Stereotypes often take the form of elaborate historical narrative stories we tell ourselves about the past. Misconceptions and perversions become history; history becomes romanticized or distorted. The roles that the marginalized have played in the grand narratives of history are often absent, diminished, or ill-conceived.

https://icds.ee/en/memory-versus-history-russias-war-on-ukraine/
Historical Narratives as Tools of State Policy. Russia's use of history as a tool against Ukraine's sovereignty involves portraying Ukraine not as a neighbour but as a historically integral part of Russia. This narrative is often presented through the lens of Ukraine being a land of "Malorossiya" (Little Russia), suggesting a diminished

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2505043.pdf
historical change, a theory, say, of economic or political processes. In all these ways an historical narrative may have a meaning as a whole over and above the meaning of its parts, its constitutive sentences. Narratives of fiction can be given meaning in these ways too. When the question is raised as to whether historical narratives as a

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/24/nx-s1-4954800/how-a-fluke-uncovered-a-rare-autobiography-giving-a-narrative-on-slavery-new-life
Schroeder searched a database of historical documents for details on Harriet's son. He wasn't getting far, so he tried another search term focused on Harriet's brother, Johnathan S. Jacobs (ph).

https://www.bartleby.com/docs/history/14399677
Describe one narrative that has significantly influenced the contemporary understanding of your historical event. One narrative that has influenced my understanding of the historical event is 'The Great Smog of London: In The Think of Apathy' written by Geoffrey Lean. Within the article towards the end, Geoffrey Lean adds in that "Shortly

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2024/05/22/governments-can-control-the-narrative-of-an-official-history/
Where Fanning's volume is a useful comparator is as a study of how a government can control the narrative of an official history. In the early 1920s some of the Department of Finance's biggest

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-85607-001.html
In this article, we situate these cultural shifts in the United States within the historical context of the 21st century emergence of new social technologies, which has altered the relationship between the individual and authoritative information in such a manner as to center a cultural narrative of authenticity in sexual and gender identity development (e.g., Cover, 2022).