Throughout Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writing career, historical romance is one of the most important genres among his romance works. By selecting, editing, and arranging historical materials from the colonial period to the republic period, Hawthorne expresses abundant of historical representations and complicated ideas of history in his historical romances. After the interpretation of Hawthorne’s representative historical romances, we can find out a logical chain in Hawthorne’s historical concept distinctly: through the disenchantment of history, suspecting historical narratives and historiography, Hawthorne casts a strong suspicion on the seriousness and certainty of history. This multi-dimensional suspicion of history, in turn, further enriches the historical expressions in Hawthorne's works and enlarges aesthetic tensions in Hawthorne's historical romance.