what is history?

Answer 1

History \His"to*ry\, n.; pl. Histories. [L. historia, Gr.
'istori`a history, information, inquiry, fr. 'istwr, "istwr,
knowing, learned, from the root of ? to know; akin to E. wit.
See Wit, and cf. Story.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts
and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such
information; a narrative; a description; a written record;
as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a
legislative bill.
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2. A systematic, written account of events, particularly of
those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art,
and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of
their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a
romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate
simply the facts and events of each year, in strict
chronological order; from biography, which is the record
of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history
composed from personal experience, observation, and
memory.
[1913 Webster]

Answer 2

History is a term for information about the past. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies.

Answer 3

It is the study of the sequence of past human, economic, cultural, cosmic, etc. proccesses. Here are two dominant theories about history. 1) History repeats itself in an unending cycle of ups and downs, deaths and births, harvests and famines, etc. Man tumbles through this change, always to find himself back at a state identical with an earlier one. 2) History is progressive. Cyclical trends give way to assymetrical, larger scale developments, like the development of knowledge and technology, which have no analog in past events.

Answer 4

History is a chronological set of chronicles and events that have been passed down and recorded through the ages either by the written word or verbally in the way of stories and sagas. It's where we as individuals and our countries get our roots and culture. Jules, lecturer. Australia.

Answer 5

Is the spacial and memorable happened on the past, example is our heroes. all of them are in the history, because they do something you would never forget. that is a history mean. And my dream is to be a part of history.

Answer 6

Have you asked this question before?

If so you really don't know what history is, because; you are repeating yourself.

I'll make this simple, history is the written past.

Answer 7

History is the story of civilization written by the conquering people of each age, rewritten by archeologists who uncover lost truth

Answer 8

HISTORY IS AN EVENT IN THE PAST, THAT A GROUP OF PEOPLE HAVE DECIDED TO AGREE UPON.

Answer 9

History is that on which we stand,i.e. the present

Answer 10

Things that happened in the past.
Some say that it means, "his story", I'm not sure if the latter part is the case.

Duane J.