Title: 
Headings: What is History? How do Historians study the past as contrasted with Non-historians?
What
 
is
 
History?
 
How
 
do
 
Historians
 
study
 
the
 
past
 
as
 
contrasted
 
with
 
Non-historians?
 

Content: Because
 
history
 
is
 
about
 
change,
 
nothing
 
was
 
ever
 
“always”
 
a
 
certain
 
way. Non-historians
 
often
 
romanticize
 
the
 
past
 
and
 
speak
 
of
 
the
 
“good
 
old
 
days”
 
when
 
they
 
believe
 
that
 
things
 
were
 
generally
 
better
 
than
 
at
 
present. Conversely,
 
some
 
see
 
history
 
exclusively
 
as
 
a
 
story
 
of
 
progress
 
with
 
everything
 
constantly
 
improving. People
 
of
 
all
 
eras
 
have
 
made
 
great
 
achievements
 
and
 
committed
 
terrible
 
blunders; so
 
processes
 
of
 
historical
 
change
 
cannot
 
be
 
categorized
 
as
 
either
 
simple
 
progress
 
or
 
regression. Historical
 
processes
 
involve
 
complex
 
relations
 
between
 
interrelated
 
factors. Non-historians
 
derive
 
information
 
mainly
 
from
 
television,
 
movies,
 
and
 
the
 
internet
 
as
 
well
 
as
 
some
 
books
 
or
 
magazines. They
 
generally
 
accept
 
any
 
sources
 
uncritically
 
as
 
long
 
as
 
the
 
source
 
is
 
interesting. Historians
 
know
 
that
 
all
 
sources,
 
even
 
those
 
original
 
to
 
a
 
particular
 
historical
 
time
 
period,
 
have
 
some
 
biases,
 
omissions,
 
contradictions,
 
or
 
various
 
other
 
limitations. That
 
does
 
not
 
mean
 
that
 
such
 
sources
 
are
 
completely
 
invalid
 
and
 
useless;