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    What Is History?

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    History originated from the ancient Greek term "historia", meaning learning through inquiry. It is generally defined as the study of past events, including their causes. The American Historical Association currently defines history as the ongoing process of understanding the past and its meanings. Therefore, history employs a systematic approach to organize narratives about the past, rather than just compiling facts. In the Philippine context, history ("kasaysayan") is described as an essential narrative for a group of people based on their unique language and cultural heritage. Importantly, history provides a glimpse of the past rather than documenting everything, since not all past events were recorded.

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    History originated from the ancient Greek term "historia", meaning learning through inquiry. It is generally defined as the study of past events, including their causes. The American Historical Association currently defines history as the ongoing process of understanding the past and its meanings. Therefore, history employs a systematic approach to organize narratives about the past, rather than just compiling facts. In the Philippine context, history ("kasaysayan") is described as an essential narrative for a group of people based on their unique language and cultural heritage. Importantly, history provides a glimpse of the past rather than documenting everything, since not all past events were recorded.

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    History originated from the ancient Greek term "historia", meaning learning through inquiry. It is generally defined as the study of past events, including their causes. The American Historical Association currently defines history as the ongoing process of understanding the past and its meanings. Therefore, history employs a systematic approach to organize narratives about the past, rather than just compiling facts. In the Philippine context, history ("kasaysayan") is described as an essential narrative for a group of people based on their unique language and cultural heritage. Importantly, history provides a glimpse of the past rather than documenting everything, since not all past events were recorded.

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    What is History?

    History originated as a derivation of historia, an ancient Greek term for learning through
    inquiry (Hoefferle, 2013). It is usually defined as the study of past events. Merriam
    Webster Dictionary denotes that history refers to a chronological record of significant
    events such as those affecting a nation or institution, often including an explanation of
    their causes. The American Historical Association, on the other hand, currently defines
    history as the never-ending process whereby people seek to understand the past and
    its many meanings. Therefore, history is not only a mere collection of narratives
    compiled or collated by authors, rather history employs a system to organize narratives.
    As what the Greek philosopher Readings in Philippine History 3
    Aristotle once said, history is a systematic account of a set of natural phenomena. It is
    also an investigative work because people aim to satisfy their thirst for truth. History
    attempts to know the actions of human beings that were accomplished in the past
    (Collingwood, 1976).
    In the Philippine setting, the classic definition of history is given by Zeus Salazar, a
    notable historian and retired professor of the University of the Philippines. To him,
    Kasaysayan, the counterpart of history in the mother tongue, is an essential narrative
    with to a group of people that is characterized by uniqueness and identity. This
    uniqueness, as opined by Salazar, is largely based on their own language and heritage,
    hence ―Ang Kasaysayan ay salaysay na may saysay para sa isang grupo ng tao na
    may kakanyahan, identidad na nakasandig sa sariling wika at kalinangan (Sebastian
    and Rosales, 2008). Through this definition, Salazar reiterates that the essence of
    history depends on whose history is being narrated and who the intended audiences
    are.
    It is important to note that history is not the past, but rather a glimpse of the past. The
    entirety of the past cannot be narrated and included in all of the written histories for the
    main reason that not everything which happened in the past were recorded and/or
    documented. Therefore, history does not create narration of past events; rather a
    recreation of past events based on available materials.

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