| Hint | Historiography | Notable historians |
| What might have been... | |
| Histoire totale, la longe duree | |
| Dialectical materialism, emphasis on the working class | |
| History as a teleological convergance to (British) liberal democracy | |
| Reinterpretation of history | |
| Fabrications, fake history | |
| Wide readership, over dramatization | |
| Taking completely different events or themes completely out of context and drawing tenuous links | |
| Name any other, just for fun | |