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History is the branch of knowledge dealing with past events.

The past is neither


the present nor the future. The historian’s task is to understand the past by
analyzing the evidence given or written in the present. Thus, history as a way of
knowing implies cause and effect through time. Another areas of knowledge related
here is the human science. The human scientists study and interpret experiences,
activities, constructs, and artifacts associated with human beings, attempt to
expand and enlighten the human being’s knowledge of their existence, its
interrelationship with other species and systems, and the development of artifacts
to perpetuate the human expression and thought. In other words, it attempts to gain
complete control of the future. How is human science related to history? The study
of human experience is historical and current in nature, thus require the
evaluation and interpretation of the historic human experience and the analysis of
current human activity to gain an understanding of human phenomena and to project
the outlines of human evolution. The historians don’t think of their work as
learning the lessons of the past; instead every historian is a human scientist,
they determine how any of those lessons apply to the present and how the same
histories might be interpreted different perspective. Therefore, by historians
understanding the past, human scientist could build on the knowledge and improve
and change the future.

The historians examine the past. Before stepping into the discussion of the
purposes of history, we need to know the difference between history and the past.
It is important to note that history is not the past. The past is a term used to
indicate all the events, which occurred before a given ...

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