What is history?

Question

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Answer 1

History is an evidence which explains what happened in the past. It is a record or study about the past which is written in the present to influence the future. History is self-knowledge. It is about knowing about yourself, what kind of person you are, and what it is like to be unique. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do, and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. History also guides us though daily life.

So to conclude everything, history is about what happened in the past, written in the present, and how it might affect the future. The value of history , then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

Answer 2

History is the study of past human activities. Although this broad discipline has often been classified under either the humanities or the social sciences, it can be seen to be a bridge between them, incorporating methodologies from both fields of study.

Traditionally, historians have attempted to answer historical questions through the study of written documents, although historical research is not limited merely to these sources. In general, the sources of historical knowledge can be separated into three categories: what is written, what is said, and what is physically preserved, and historians often consult all three.

Historians frequently emphasize the importance of written records, which universally date to the development of writing. This emphasis has led to the term prehistory, referring to a time before written sources are available. Since writing emerged at different times throughout the world, the distinction between prehistory and history often depends on the topic.

As a field of study, history encompasses many subfields and ancillary fields. These include chronology, historiography, archeology, genealogy, paleography, and cliometrics, among many others.

The scope of the human past has naturally led scholars to divide that time into manageable pieces for study. There are a variety of ways in which the past can be divided, including chronologically, culturally, and topically. These three divisions are not mutually exclusive, and significant overlap is often present, as in "The Argentine Labor Movement in an Age of Transition, 1930–1945". It is possible for historians to concern themselves with both very specific and very general locations, times, and topics, although the trend has been toward specialization.

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Answer 3

History is the study of past human activities. Although this broad discipline has often been classified under either the humanities or the social sciences, it can be seen to be a bridge between them, incorporating methodologies from both fields of study.

Traditionally, historians have attempted to answer historical questions through the study of written documents, although historical research is not limited merely to these sources. In general, the sources of historical knowledge can be separated into three categories: what is written, what is said, and what is physically preserved, and historians often consult all three.

Historians frequently emphasize the importance of written records, which universally date to the development of writing. This emphasis has led to the term prehistory, referring to a time before written sources are available. Since writing emerged at different times throughout the world, the distinction between prehistory and history often depends on the topic.

As a field of study, history encompasses many subfields and ancillary fields. These include chronology, historiography, archeology, genealogy, paleography, and cliometrics, among many others.

The scope of the human past has naturally led scholars to divide that time into manageable pieces for study. There are a variety of ways in which the past can be divided, including chronologically, culturally, and topically. These three divisions are not mutually exclusive, and significant overlap is often present, as in "The Argentine Labor Movement in an Age of Transition, 1930–1945". It is possible for historians to concern themselves with both very specific and very general locations, times, and topics, although the trend has been toward specialization.*

Answer 4

History answers the question, "Where did I come from?" History is a record of what men and women have done to survive and thrive over a huge expanse of time. History tells us what works and what doesn't. It can teach us not to repeat mistakes, but often we don't see that. Others who answered you before me have said that history is written by the victors and so it cannot be believed. That is not necessarily true today. Historians now are going to great lengths to find the history of those who did not win wars. They are also trying to recapture the history of women and everyday life in earlier times. It's a great time to study history because we have evolved enough as a species to realize that history is viewed differently by different people. Historians today are very aware that they must look at history from all points of view. Some people today look at the word history as meaning "His Story." Some feminists have said we should also have "Her Story" or "Herstory". Humanists say "his" story and "her" story needs to include all of man and woman kind. They are right. Perhaps we should call it "Our History", or Ourhistory!

Answer 5

Will Durrant, one of the world's great historians once said that, "HIstory is 50% prejudice and 50% guessing." That answer is pretty accurate. I've read, written, and taught history for over 20 years and I would define history as the attempt of modern scholars to collect evidence from the past, organize, interpret, and explain that evidence so that we can understand what happened in our past. That being said, it is difficult to do. Often evidence is scarce, interpretations are biased, and explanations are often incomplete. Therefore we keep reinterpreting history with each new generation. New journals are uncovered in attics or basements that add new light to previous events. Modern events shed further light on past events. And historians with different backgrounds interpret the same data very differently. Obviously an Asian-American historian, whose father was interred in a WW II internment camp will interpret that information differently than a black historian whose father was killed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. We have to simply read as much history as we can by as many divergent historians we can and then draw our own conclusions. Hence 50% guessing as to what really happened and 50% prejudice in interpreting those events.

Answer 6

History is the study of past human activities. Although this broad discipline has often been classified under either the humanities or the social sciences, it can be seen to be a bridge between them, incorporating methodologies from both fields of study.

Answer 7

History: Science that studies the past events and records them in writing. Therefore history exists since the apparition of the first written document. Before the written document it is called prehistory.
Also:
1 Narration and exposition of the past and worthy events of report, they will be public or private.
2. Discipline that studies and narrates these events.
3. Historical work compound by a writer. The HISTORY of Thucydides, of Tito Livio, etc.
4. Group of events or facts, social, economic, cultural, political etc., of a people or a nation.
5. Group of the events occurred to a person throughout their/its/your/his life or in a period of she.
6. Relationship of any adventure or event. I have here the HISTORY of this business.
7 Relationship of the data with referring medical meaning to a sick, to the treatment to the fact that is submitted to him/her/you and to the evolution of their/its/your/his disease.
natural.
In a computer, the relation of the web pages or pages, accessed during certain past period.

Answer 8

History is written by the winners ...

You don't like the nation's rulers? History will remember you as a Reble or a Liberator depending on whether you win or not. -Either way, people will probably get hurt ... but history may not remember them

Answer 9

History is a part of humanity that we need to learn and study in order for us to know our future. as they say History repeats itself!

Answer 10

History is what prevents us to see the future.