History Under Debate Manifesto

After eight years of contact, reflection, and debate, through conferences, inquiries, and, of late, over the Internet (www.h-debate.com), we are compelled to make explicit and update our stance in the critical dialogue with other historiographic developments from the last decade of the twentieth century: (1) continuism during the 1960s and 1970s, (2) Postmodernism, and (3) the return to “Old History” in contrast to the New History of the late twentieth century, the latest historiographic “innovation.”