In The Houses of History, many schools of historical thought are presented and shed light on what exactly it means to be these different types of historians. Not all historians think the same way or approach history from the same perspective, but some similar groups of thought have converged and formed the different types of historians that will be featured, such as empiricists, psychohistorians , oral historians and gender historians. All of these groups can approach the same event or concept and look at it in a completely different way simply because of how the historical approach they are accustomed to sees things. One group of beginning historians to examine more closely are the empiricists. Empiricists have a very strictly factual and logical view of history and how to examine it. They believe that the past is both "observable and verifiable" and that through adherence to three strict principles, the past can be represented objectively and accurately. (Green, Troup 3) The aforementioned three principles can be summarized as follows: meticulously examining historical evidence and verifying the evidence with references, ensuring that the research is completely unbiased and free from bias and bias, and using a method inductive or observational. of reasoning. (Green, Troup 3) Empiricists seek to find universal historical truths through objective research and sticking to the facts. The next group of historical thinkers are psychohistorians. Sigmund Freud was the pioneer of psychoanalytic theory and psychohistory interprets history through psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic theory helps explain the actors in the story through their behavior and psychological functioning. Psychoanalytic theory was...... middle of paper ......ngs across different cultures. It's really fascinating how there are so many different approaches to history, how so many different types of minds and schools of thought can come together. to study the events of the world's past. There are many ways to approach what happened in our past, and the previously mentioned groups of historians represent only a fraction of the actual number of different ways of researching and thinking that exist when it comes to study. of history. History is, in some way, always a mystery, and all historians, regardless of their education, training, or biases, seek to achieve one goal: to understand what happened before us and why. , and use this knowledge to learn how the world was shaped. the world we live in today. Works Cited Green, Anna and Kathleen Troup. The Houses of History. New York, New York: New York University Press, 1999.