History

History

History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about these events. The term includes cosmic, geologic, and organic history, but is often generically implied to mean human history. Scholars who write about history are called historians.

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Famous quotes containing the word history:

    “When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.”
    —Erma Brombeck (20th century)

    “There is no history of how bad became better.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “History takes time.... History makes memory.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)