In most countries history textbook are tools to foster nationalism and patriotism, and give students the official line about national enemies.In many countries history textbooks are sponsored by the n ...
From the origins of national school systems in the 19th century, the teaching of history to promote national sentiment has been a high priority. In the United States after World War I, a strong moveme ...
Pseudohistory is a term applied to texts which purport to be historical in nature but which depart from standard historiographical conventions in a way which undermines their conclusions. Closely rela ...
Since the 20th century, Western historians have disavowed the aspiration to provide the "judgement of history." The goals of historical judgements or interpretations are separate to those of legal jud ...
Professional and amateur historians discover, collect, organize, and present information about past events. In lists of historians, historians can be grouped by order of the historical period in which ...
PeriodsMain article: PeriodizationHistorical study often focuses on events and developments that occur in particular blocks of time. Historians give these periods of time names in order to allow "orga ...
The historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write history.Herodotus of Halicarnassus (484 BC – ca. ...
Philosophy of history is a branch of philosophy concerning the eventual significance, if any, of human history. Furthermore, it speculates as to a possible teleological end to its development—that is ...
Historiography has a number of related meanings. Firstly, it can refer to how history has been produced: the story of the development of methodology and practices (for example, the move from short-ter ...
The history of the world is the memory of the past experience of Homo sapiens sapiens around the world, as that experience has been preserved, largely in written records. By "prehistory", historians m ...
Historians write in the context of their own time, and with due regard to the current dominant ideas of how to interpret the past, and sometimes write to provide lessons for their own society. In the ...
A derivation from *weid- "know" or "see" is attested as "the reconstructed etymon wid-tor (compare to English wit) a suffixed zero-grade form of the PIE root *weid- 'see' and so is related to Greek e ...
History (from Greek ?στορ?α, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past, specifically how it relates to humans. It is an umbrella term that relat ...
