HISTORIANS

WHAT IS HISTORY?
History is simply defining as the study of the human past from written, visual, and spoken
sources with the analysis and interpretation. The main purposes of the history are to study
continuity and change over time. By studying history historians can describe explain the causes
and consequences of events Therefore, it should be said that history can be define as
understanding past and present. Through the study of history, it should be understanding that
how people and societies have changed, developed and how past shaped the future means how
the society we live in came to be.
Historians are not using only written documents, but also oral sources and objects such as
buildings, artifacts, photographs, and paintings to examine, interpret, revisit, and reinterpret the
past. It should not be forgetting that without describe, examine, question, and analyze these
both written and non-written historical sources by historians, these sources are silent and
incomplete. History also cannot be thought without other disciplines such as economics,
anthropology, geography, archeology, numismatics, and linguistics. Thus history can be used to
understand other disciplines and other disciplines also helps history to understand past and
change over time.
Historians may study the history of particular groups of people, particular events, history of a
single country or region and limited time periods. Historians are aware of methods of finding this
sources and evaluating these sources. They have talent to make sources voice up. Historians
first step is formulating the questions to be answered about the area which they are interested
in. Then the questions in their mind let them to find best primary sources for their investigations.
After that historians applied secondary sources articles and books written on their chosen topic
for their investigation. They are also using archives, on either a physical or digital platform to
answer their questions about the past.
Last but not least, there are lots of disciplinary fields for historians use to classify their broad
areas of work within the overall academic discipline of history.19th and 20thcentury, history
dominated by political and military history. 20th century French historians with the Annales
School emphasized social and economic rather than political and economic history. Then there
are now flourishing fields such as intellectual history, Environmental history emerged in the
1980s, Maritime history, Oral history, women's history in the 1970s.
Sources:
Wolf, Jacqueline H. “Historical Methods.” Journal of Human Lactation 34, no. 2 (May 2018): 282–
84. doi:10.1177/0890334418757448.
Kilburn, Matthew. "history." In Dictionary Plus History. : Oxford University Press, https://
www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191823497.001.0001/acref-9780191823497-
e-275.
History is simply defining as the study of the human past from written, visual, and spoken
sources with the analysis and interpretation. The main purposes of the history are to study
continuity and change over time. By studying history historians can describe explain the causes
and consequences of events Therefore, it should be said that history can be define as
understanding past and present. Through the study of history, it should be understanding that
how people and societies have changed, developed and how past shaped the future means how
the society we live in came to be.
Historians are not using only written documents, but also oral sources and objects such as
buildings, artifacts, photographs, and paintings to examine, interpret, revisit, and reinterpret the
past. It should not be forgetting that without describe, examine, question, and analyze these
both written and non-written historical sources by historians, these sources are silent and
incomplete. History also cannot be thought without other disciplines such as economics,
anthropology, geography, archeology, numismatics, and linguistics. Thus history can be used to
understand other disciplines and other disciplines also helps history to understand past and
change over time.
Historians may study the history of particular groups of people, particular events, history of a
single country or region and limited time periods. Historians are aware of methods of finding this
sources and evaluating these sources. They have talent to make sources voice up. Historians
first step is formulating the questions to be answered about the area which they are interested
in. Then the questions in their mind let them to find best primary sources for their investigations.
After that historians applied secondary sources articles and books written on their chosen topic
for their investigation. They are also using archives, on either a physical or digital platform to
answer their questions about the past.
Last but not least, there are lots of disciplinary fields for historians use to classify their broad
areas of work within the overall academic discipline of history.19th and 20thcentury, history
dominated by political and military history. 20th century French historians with the Annales
School emphasized social and economic rather than political and economic history. Then there
are now flourishing fields such as intellectual history, Environmental history emerged in the
1980s, Maritime history, Oral history, women's history in the 1970s.
Sources:
Wolf, Jacqueline H. “Historical Methods.” Journal of Human Lactation 34, no. 2 (May 2018): 282–
84. doi:10.1177/0890334418757448.
Kilburn, Matthew. "history." In Dictionary Plus History. : Oxford University Press, https://
www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191823497.001.0001/acref-9780191823497-
e-275.