What is History?

Okay, by this time you’re all up to your eyeballs in historiography and history. You’ve been reading and writing for almost a month. Obviously you must have asked yourself this question before What is History? In this Discussion I would like you to ramble as much as possible, relating, from your own experience, what you think we historians have been up to. Are we simply recording the past “wie est eigentlich gewesen ist” (“as it really was”) or is there something else going here as well? Your responses can be as informal (my own preference) or as formal as you like. You may even go to the sources (after all, isn’t that what you’ve been doing for weeks?) for answers. Perhaps the newspaper or television will give you an idea. I don’t know. What I do know is that a day does not go by when I don’t ask myself this fundamental question. Now it’s your turn.

task:

-add 6 sources in TURABIAN format as footnotes too and bibliography

-use the uploaded files too

-add plagiarism report