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The Development of History as an Academic Discipline

History became an academic discipline in the mid-nineteenth century. History was often a part of literature, and information was left unrecorded. People had not defined specific study patterns, making storing historical data irrelevant. However, changes in the social and economic statuses led to redefining the need for historical recording information.
The main concern of history as a discipline is the change and the intertwinement of historical issues. History is written and defined by individual groups who may misrepresent facts and provide misinformation. For instance, wars are written by the victors and not the losers. For example, the truths of the Numberg trials limit the facts that even the allies committed crimes against humanity.
History is considered a discipline because it involves gaining knowledge of and interpreting the past. Historians are also involved in the recording of the past. History consists of the study of prehistoric and historical information.

The historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources, and other evidence, to research and write history.

Herodotus, from the 5th-century BC, has been acclaimed as the "father of history", after he wrote the Histories – a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars. However, his contemporary, Thucydides is credited with having first approached history with a well-developed historical method in the History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides, unlike Herodotus, regarded history as the product of the choices and actions of humans, and looked at cause and effect, rather than the result of divine intervention (though Herodotus was not wholly committed to this idea himself). In his historical method, Thucydides emphasized chronology, a nominally neutral point of view, and that the human world was the result of human actions. Greek historians viewed history as cyclical, with events regularly recurring.
There was sophisticated use of historical method in ancient and medieval China. The groundwork for professional historiography in East Asia was established by court historian Sima Qian (145–90 BC), the author of the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) and posthumously known as the Father of Chinese historiography.
Saint Augustine of Hippo was influential in Christian and Western thought at the beginning of the medieval period. Through the Medieval and Renaissance periods, history was often studied through a sacred or religious perspective. Around 1800, German philosopher and historian Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel brought philosophy and a more secular approach in historical study.
In the preface to his book, the Muqaddimah (1377), the Arab historian and early sociologist, Ibn Khaldun, warned of 7 mistakes he thought historians committed. In this criticism, he approached the past as strange and in need of interpretation. The originality of Ibn Khaldun was to claim that the cultural difference of another age must govern the evaluation of relevant historical material, to distinguish the principles according to which it might be possible to attempt the evaluation, and to feel the need for experience, in addition to rational principles, in order to assess a culture of the past. Ibn Khaldun criticized "idle superstition and uncritical acceptance of historical data". He introduced a scientific method to the study of history, and referred to it as his "new science".  His method laid the groundwork for the observation of the role of state, communication, propaganda and systematic bias in history, and so is considered to be the "father of historiography"  or the "father of the philosophy of history".
In the West, historians developed modern methods of historiography in the 17th and 18th centuries, especially in France and Germany. In 1851, Herbert Spencer summarized these methods:"From the successive strata of our historical deposits, they [historians] diligently gather all the highly colored fragments, pounce upon everything that is curious and sparkling and chuckle like children over their glittering acquisitions; meanwhile the rich veins of wisdom that ramify amidst this worthless debris, lie utterly neglected. Cumbrous volumes of rubbish are greedily accumulated, while those masses of rich ore, that should have been dug out, and from which golden truths might have been smelted, are left untaught and unsought." By the "rich ore" Spencer meant scientific theory of history.

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Remember that we mentioned few historians, then the question is who is a historian. Let's define who is an historian.

Who is a Historian: Historians collect and evaluate information from many primary sources to answer questions about historical events, a process known as the historical method. They may analyze written records, physical artifacts, and other types of evidence during the course of their investigations.A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it.
Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time.
A historian is a person who specializes in the discipline of History. They aimed to research, study, analyze, interpret the historical sources of past humanity. They can specialize in particular geographies, events, or periods of history. Historians differently than other people must be objective and must refer to facts avoiding opinions or any form of bias. They started with their investigation with many questions that they are collecting historical data from different types of historical sources to analyze and interpret. Then they are organizing data and preparing this organizing data to present historical accounts and findings in the form of published papers, books, and conferences. Historians are not working alone. They are consulting and collaborating with groups, organizations, museums and foundations to promote activities, organize conferences and exhibitions. They can also interview with people to gather information of life events of individuals; and documenting and organizing information. Though they analyze and document historical data, they should be analytical and identify issues and resolve problems in a timely manner using critical thinking and good judgment.

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Illuminating the Meaning of History through the Lens of Historians
Here are the few definitions by historians.
Marcus Cicero: “History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.”

E.H. Carr: “History is an unending dialogue between the present and the past and the chief function of a historian is to master and understand the past as a key to the understanding of the present.”

Thomas Charlyle : “World History is a biography of great men”.

Prof. G. J. Renier: “History is the memories of societies.”

Prof. G.R. Elton: “History is concerned with all those human sayings, thoughts, deeds and sufferings which occurred in the past and have left present deposit; and it deals with them from the point of view of happening change and particular done in the past”

Prof. A.L. Rowse: “History is essentially the record of the life of men in societies in their geographical and their physical environments. Their social and cultural environments arise from the interaction of the one with the other, the society and its geographical condition.”

Aristotle: 'History is an account of the unchanging past'

K. Kris Hirst: "History is the study of the human past as it is described in written documents left behind by humans."

Voltaire: "History is nothing but a pack of tricks we play on the dead."
Burckhardt: "History is the record of what one ages finds worthy of note in another".

H.G. Wells : Human history in essence is the history of ideas

Henry Johnson: History is the detailed account of the events that have taken place.

Arthur Marwick : The bodies of knowledge about the past produced by historians, together with everything that is involved in the production, communication of, and teaching about that knowledge.

History is simply defining as the study of a series of events of human past from written, visual, and spoken sources with the analysis and interpretation.

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Now let's talk about the definition of History. People tend to see history as the story of the past, while others see it as the study of the past itself. We want to explore how historians defined what is history. Many historians have defined the concept of history in different ways that suit their perspectives. But before we delve into the definition, let's take a look at notable historians that have shaped the nature of history.
List of few notable historians
Herodotus: wrote Histories, which established Western historiography. He is regarded as the father of History.
Thucydides: wrote Peloponnesian War; an Athenian Historian and General; He is the the father of Modern History.
Xenophon :an Athenian knight and a student of Socrates.
Niccolò Machiavelli: an Italian Renaissance philosopher and diplomat. He is the author of The Prince.
Voltaire: French Historian and Philosopher was Known for his Wit and his pointed social critique
David Hume :best known for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, scepticism and naturalism
FlaviusnJosephus: a Romano-Jewish Historian and Military Leader
Plutarch: Greek Middle Platonist Philosopher, Historian, Biographer and Priest. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives.
Ibn Khaldun: a Sociologist, Philosopher, and an Arab Historian. He is regard as father of Historiography, and Sciences of History.
Livy: a Roman Historian. Livy's most famous work was his history of Rome.
Polybius: a Greek Historian of the Hellenistic Period. He is noted for his work The Histories, a universal history documenting the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean in the third and second centuries BC.
Arnold J. Toynbee: he presented history as the rise and fall of civilizations, rather than the history of nation-states or of ethnic groups.
Alexis de Tocqueville: a Historian Known for his works on 'Democracy in America'; 'The Old Regime' ; and 'The Revolution'
Leopold von Ranke: a German Historian and a Founder of Modern Source-Based History.
Sima Qian: Chinese Historian and Astrologer; the father of Chinese history
Fernand Braudel: French Historian and Leader of the Annales School
E. H. Carr: a Historian, Journalist, Diplomat, Writer, Political scientist, Professor. The author of 'What is History'.
Jacob Burckhardt: a Swiss Historian of Art and Culture.
Oswald Spengler: a German Historian & Philosopher known for his two-volume work: 'The Decline of the West'
Thomas Carlyle: He is the founder of The Great Man Theory.
Karl Marx: a German Philosopher and the writer of the Communist Manifesto.
Edward Gibbon, English rationalist historian and scholar best known as the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Hugo Grotius: a Dutch Statesman And the Father of International Law
A.L. Rowse: a British Historian
R.G. Collingwood: British Historian. a practicing archaeologist best known for his work in aesthetics and the philosophy of history.
Hugh Trevor-Roper: Baron Dacre of Glanton, British historian and scholar noted for his works on aspects of World War II and on Elizabethan history

Cheikh Anta Diop: Diop's work is considered foundational to the theory of Afrocentricity.
They are just too numerous to mention. These are just a few notable historians.

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Etymology of History

The word history comes where the Greek word was borrowed into Classical Latin as historia, meaning "investigation, inquiry, research, account, description, written account of past events, writing of history, historical narrative, recorded knowledge of past events, story, narrative". History was borrowed from Latin (possibly via Old Irish or Old Welsh) into Old English as stær ("history, narrative, story", but this word fell out of use in the late Old English period.Meanwhile, as Latin became Old French (and Anglo-Norman), historia developed into forms such as istorie, estoire, and historie, with new developments in the meaning: "account of the events of a person's life (beginning of the 12th century), chronicle, account of events as relevant to a group of people or people in general (1155), dramatic or pictorial representation of historical events (c. 1240), body of knowledge relative to human evolution, science (c. 1265), narrative of real or imaginary events, story (c. 1462)".

It was from Anglo-Norman that history was brought into Middle English, and it has persisted. It appears in the 13th-century Ancrene Wisse, but seems to have become a common word in the late 14th century, with an early attestation appearing in John Gower's Confessio Amantis of the 1390s (VI.1383): In Middle English, the meaning of history was "story" in general. The restriction to the meaning "the branch of knowledge that deals with past events; the formal record or study of past events, esp. human affairs" arose in the mid-15th century. With the Renaissance, older senses of the word were revived, and it was in the Greek sense that Francis Bacon used the term in the late 16th century, when he wrote about natural history. For him, historia was "the knowledge of objects determined by space and time", that sort of knowledge provided by memory (while science was provided by reason, and poetry was provided by fantasy).

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