What is History?

History is the study of how the world we live in now has been shaped by the events of
the past. It is a record of human experiences relative to the society in which we live. Our
lives as members of western civilization, have been formed by outstanding institutions,
ideas, and creative works. Without the knowledge of our past we would have little
direction in our society, we can not learn from past mistakes and successes, to put it
bluntly, we learn the past to predict the future.
The majority of the knowledge we gain by studying history is of the political,
economic, and social record of o…