Category: history...

historiography is the writing of history especially that based on critical examination of sources
recording the oral history of your family
New York's American Museum of Natural History and Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History
framing an old map for a history buff
chronicling history in a journal
The only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. (Henry Ford)
All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography. (RW Emerson)
History is Philosophy teaching by examples. (Thucydides)
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. (EL Doctorow)
reading history gives us vicarious experience
finding your way through this huge maze of names, dates, and facts; a reader of history is one who follows with his mind the steps another took on his voyage of discovery