WHAT IS

HISTORY
Anahat Singh - Year 9 A

ASPECTS OF HISTORY
History is the study of change over time, and it covers
all aspects of human society. Political, social, economic,
scientific, technological, medical, cultural, intellectual,
religious and military developments are all part of
history. Usually professional historians specialize in a
particular aspect of history, a specific time period, a
certain approach to history or a specific geographic

"HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF"

region.

Non-historians often say that “history repeats itself” or that

“things were always this way.” History cannot repeat itself
because history is not a living, thinking being. History is an
intellectual discipline practiced by historians who try to make
sense of the past. Because history is about change, nothing was
ever “always” a certain way.

SOURCES
Historians who write history emphasize the value of primary
sources, that is those sources actually dating from thparticular
time period. Historians also write lists of all the sources that they
have used in footnotes and bibliographies in their works. This
helps other scholars who are interested to find those sources.
Providing footnotes and a bibliography is how historians
demonstrate their methodology and support their conclusions.