ABSTRACT
History makes a claim to universality, taking all human activity for its province. To add to the variety of history, whole new fields are from time to time annexed to its domain. The history of political leadership in the United States once meant merely the study of parties, votes, and individual biographies. A comparison of Von Hoist’s dull constitutional history of the United States with F. W. Maitland’s lucid writings on the legal history of Britain will quickly demonstrate this fact. Since the varieties of history are almost as numerous as the eminent writers of history, these writers, having adopted firm convictions and founded schools, have sometimes been deplorably contemptuous of one another. History is any integrated narrative, description or analysis of past events or facts written in a spirit of critical inquiry for the whole truth. Memoirs, letters, diaries, public documents, newspapers, provide for the greater part of modern history a wealth of vivid detail.
