Definition of History

History A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill. A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory. To narrate or record. Related Definitions: Account, Affecting, Also, An, And, Annals, Art, As, Biography, By, Bill, Case, Chronological, Composed, Connected, Description, Distinguished, Each, Experience, Explanation, Formal, From, Hence, History, In, Individual, Information, Inquiry, Institution, Is, Knowing, Knowledge, Learning, Legislative, Life, Memoir, Memory, Narrate, Narrative, Nation, Observation, Obtained, Of, Or, Order, Particularly, Patient, Personal, Philosophical, Record, Relate, Romance, Science, Simply, So, Statement, Story, Strict, Such, Systematic, The, Their, Those, To, True, Which, With, Written, Year

History Quotations We are not makers of history. We are made by history. Martin Luther King, Jr. History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Thomas Jefferson History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. Thomas Jefferson Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. Thomas Jefferson Live out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. Ronald Reagan If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. Warren Buffett

History Translations history in Afrikaans is geskiedenis, verhaal history in Danish is historie history in Dutch is geschiedenis, historie, verhaal history in Finnish is historia history in German is Geschichte history in Italian is storia, storia history in Norwegian is historie history in Spanish is historia history in Swedish is historia