The French Annales School is the most influential new historical school in the historical circles of the West in the 20 th century.The denomination of the journal Annales in 1929,and its renaming 1946 and 1994 all reflected,from one aspect,the changes of the Annales School.This article makes an analysis mainly of its renaming in 1994 and the new trends in Western historical studies as reflected by this renaming.