The “ new history ” is current the historiographic of Jacques Le Goff and Pierre Nora, corresponding to the third generation of the French Ecole of Annals, appeared in the years 1970.

The new history is before all the “history of mentalities”: it is a question of establishing a serial history of the mentalities, i.e. collective representations and mental structures of the companies. According to the put question, the Historian - analyst endeavors to propose a rational interpretation of the data which have provides its corpus of research to him.

These historians launched out in the analysis total of very vast units, coherent in their social organization and economic and capped by a homogeneous system of representations. The field of the history still widens and the discipline is interested more in the phenomena of long life.

The new history also calls upon the historical Anthropologie.