History

There are different types of "History". These are the main subfields:

* Political history: the story of government, political leaders, electoral activities, the making of policy, and the interaction of branches of government.

* Diplomatic history: the study of the relations between nations, diplomats, and ideas of diplomacy.

* Social history: the study of ways and customs, of family, education, children, demography (population change), and voluntary institutions (churches, for example).

* Cultural history: the study of language and its uses, of the arts and literature, sport, and entertainment, in constructing cultural categories.

* Economic history: the study of how an entire system of production and consumption (or of any of its parts) works, of markets, industry, credit, and working people at all levels of the system.

* Intellectual history: the study of ideology and epistemology, analyzing how ideas affect human actions and how the material world affects human ideas.