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What is history? What does history consist of?
(1) What does history consist of—individual actions, social structures, periods and regions, civilizations, large causal processes? It is tempting to say that everything and anything is the stuff of history, yet the doing of history involves sifting through “the stuff” to construct plausible representations of the past, which leads to the next question. (2) What is involved in our knowing, representing, and explaining the past? (3) What role does interpretation of the “lived experience” of past actors play in historical understanding, and how does the historian arrive at justified statements about the lived experience of historical people, their mentalities, and their actions? (4) Finally, does history as a whole have meaning, structure, or direction?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Many eminent historians have written articles, essays and books on this very question you are asking.
One such work is 'What Is History?' by Edward Hallet Carr. If you haven't already studied this book then it is a good text to begin with. It is frequently on the reading list for freshman year History courses at many of the top universities.
If you are serious, then in my opinion the question that you are asking is really beyond the scope of Yahoo Answers.
Source(s): My opinion - Myla Rose VLv 41 decade ago
history is anything that has something to do with the study of the past. The study of history is relevant to the problems of the present.
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