what is history?

Answer 1

What did you do yesterday? Today it is history. I often think of history in a religious context (only because those are the books we read today) and the telling factor is it's HISstory. No offence to men - but patriarchalism tends to s***t me! If they didn't burn so many women at the stake maybe history would be little bit different. But, ultimately, if you go backwards, that's history.

Answer 2

Pseudo-history is mere facts: dates of battles, dates of rulers, who begat whom, and all that sort of old stuff.

According to one old history teacher I knew, "That's not history at all! That's boring! Real history is CHARACTER."

So, for example, knowing that Henry VIII had six wives, and who they were, and when, and that he broke with the Pope and started the Church of England, is true but oh it's so boring. Understanding what it was inside him, driving him to all the things he did, is real history. His egotism, his love of England, his conviction that it needed a strong male line of succession, and understanding how these characteristics interacted with each other and with actual events to bring about further events - that's real history.

Answer 3

lol. the easy answer is that history is the past. but that's not the WHOLE answer. History is the past that has some sort of written document to preserve it. thus, PRE-History is that for which we have no written documentation.

Answer 4

The Story of the Past

Answer 5

history is events that occured in the past. it's long gone.

Answer 6

Anything that happend in the past.

Answer 7

past!