Thomas Carlyle popularized the "Great Man theory" of this field.
The "selectivity" of this field was criticized in an E.H. Carr book asking "What Is [this field]?" One of the most notable journals in this field is based in the Bloomington campus of Indiana University and is abbreviated AHR, and the application of economics to this field is termed (*) cliometrics. The French Annales school focuses on the "long-term" study of this field, and Giambattista Vico's The New Science argued that the subject of this field is cyclical. Thomas Carlyle popularized the "Great Man theory" of this field. For 10 points, name this field that was studied by Livy, Thucydides, and its "Father," Herodotus.
The "selectivity" of this field was criticized in an E.H. Carr book asking "What Is [this field]?
history (accept specific fields of history; accept historiography)