Artificial Historians

This book offers readers an introduction to the world of artificial histories and historians. It looks behind the interfaces of AI and explores everyday platforms and prize-winning history books to identify how people and algorithms make histories, and how they might make histories in the future.

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Advisory for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Readers
Advisory about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Words and Philosophy in this Book
1. Hello, History
2. A Test for Histories
3. History's Topics
4. History's Times
5. History's Places and Grounds
6. History's Bodies and Authorities
7. History's Questions
8. History's What Ifs
9. History's Possible and Impossible Worlds
10. Standing with History - With Anne Martin and Lewis Yarlupurka O'Brien
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Marnie Hughes-Warrington is Distinguished Professor of History at Adelaide University. She is the author of many historiography texts, including Fifty Key Thinkers on History (2014), History Goes to the Movies (2007), Big and Little Histories (with Anne Martin, 2022), and History from Loss (with Daniel Woolf, 2023).
Aunty Anne Martin is Director of the Tjabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre at the Australian National University, Australia. She is co-author of Big and Little Histories (2022, with Marnie Hughes-Warrington) and is an Aboriginal rights activities and educator who is dedicated to changing the future for our next generation of leaders.
Uncle Lewis Yarlupurka O'Brien is Senior Elder, educator, adviser of the Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains, Australia and is recognised as a leader of reconciliation. He is a writer and speaker of the Kaurna language and has played a critical role in its recognition and growth. He is the author of And the Clock Struck Thirteen (2007), a memoir as told to Mary-Anne Gale.

Product details

• Authors: Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Marnie (University of South Aus Hughes-Warrington, Anne Martin, Lewis Yarlupurka O'Brien
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 21.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032229942
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3222994-2
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Artificial Intelligence, History: theory & methods, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, General & world history, History of Science, Social and cultural history, General and world history, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, History: theory and methods