''History and Theory'' is a quarterly

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published by

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on behalf of

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Epis ...

. The journal was established in 1960 by George H Nadel. Its current

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Ethan Kleinberg Ethan Kleinberg is Class of 1958 Distinguished Professor of History and Letters at Wesleyan University, Editor-in-Chief of ''History and Theory'' and was Director of Wesleyan University's Center for the Humanities. Kleinberg's wide-ranging schola ...

(

). The journal focuses on the nature of history, including the

philosophy of history Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline. The term was coined by French philosopher Voltaire. In contemporary philosophy a distinction has developed between ''speculative'' philosophy of history and ''crit ...

historiography Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians ha ...

, historical methodology,

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, and time and culture.

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