what is history ?

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Answer 1

What is History?

What is History? is a 1961 nonfiction book by historian Edward Hallet Carr on historiography. It discusses history, facts, the bias of historians, science, morality, individuals and society, and moral judgements in history.

The book originated in a series of lectures given by Carr in 1961 at the University of Cambridge. The lectures were intended as a broad introduction into the subject of the theory of history and their accessibility has resulted in What is History? becoming one of the key texts in the field of historiography.

Nevertheless, some of Carr's ideas are contentious, particularly his relativism and his rejection of contingency as an important factor in historical analysis. His work provoked a number of responses, most notably Geoffrey Elton's classic work, The Practice of History.

Carr was in the process of revising What is History? for a second edition at the time of his death.

Answer 2

History is the blog of the Human Race.

Sort of a mixture of the facts of what happened, mixed with commentary about why. Course the Historians are going to deny giving you the "why" part, but they do.

For example: That the US had slavery was a fact. "Why" they had slavery is an opinion, not a fact.

World War II was a fact. "Why" World War II happened is an opinion.

That type of thing.

Facts are useless by themselves. Dry and free standing. The "why" is the interesting part.

Just keep in mind, while you are reading history, you will be reading the "why" part. And keep in mind from who you are reading it.

"The Magna Carta" was signed in 1215. That would be fact. The reasons for it being signed would be the why.

I assume you have gotten the point by now...

Answer 3

There are any number of long erudite explanations on the nature of history by its recorders and its instigators, but, in actual fact, history is merely the most frequently related story of what has transpired in politics or in battle as told by, naturally, the "WINNERS"! It is often an apocryphal tale (i.e. George Washington and the cherry tree, Betsy Ross, Paul Revere's ride, etc.) folks enjoy repeating, but this doesn't make it true, just, as I said before, the supposed facts according to the group in power at the time of the event.

Answer 4

a record of the past happenings of the world

Answer 5

it reveals what has really happened in the past...there is no truth or lie, it is a fact and nobody can tell u it has not happened

Answer 6

the truth the world's past

Answer 7

a story

Answer 8

THE PAST...