本文所述为过去学术界较少触及的问题。作者对美国殖民地时期史学的开端、分期及特点提出了初步看法，认为该时期史学开端应从传统的１６０７年前推到１６世纪末，并以１７００年为界分为两个时期。第一个时期史学特点为史学的狭窄性、孤立性；史学中心在新英格兰；史学著作多出自清教徒之手，浸透了浓厚的宗教思想。第二个时期是其重要发展阶段，史学突破了“小国寡民”的局限，反映了殖民地联合的趋势；世俗史学家成为史坛主力；史学著作内容开始世俗化，对神学和宗教专制主义提出质疑，逐步由神本向人本过渡。殖民地经济进步是本阶段史学发展的基础，欧洲启蒙运动则起了重要促进作用。此时期史家在政治立场上多属亲英的托利党人，但其著作则成为美国的精神财富。 Described in this article for the academic community in the past less touched on. The author puts forward a preliminary view on the beginning, staging and characteristics of historiography during the American colonial period. He thinks that the beginning of history should be pushed forward from the traditional 1607 to the late 16th century and divided into 1700 and 1700. The first period of history features for the historiography of the narrow, isolated; historiography in New England; historiography more from the Puritan hand, soaked in a strong religious thought. The second period is its important stage of development. Historiography has broken through the limitations of “small country widowers”, reflecting the trend of colonial unity; the secular historians have become the main force of history; the contents of historiography have begun to be secularized, and theological and religious despotism have been put forward Questioned, and gradually from the original to the human transition. The colonial economic progress is the basis for the development of historiography at this stage, while the European Enlightenment played an important role in promoting it. Historians in this period were mostly pro-British Tories in political positions, but their books became the spiritual wealth of the United States.