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Do you know what history is? Here is one answer. It is everything humans have done and thought. Here is a more specific answer. History is the story of events. It is the story of nations and persons. How people began writing is part of history. So is the Hundred Years' War. So is the first airplane flight. So is last year's election.
How do we know about the past? There are many sources. Some are oral. Some are visual or written. We can learn of the past from one person's memory. We can learn from stories handed down through generations. We can see the past in a piece of Stone Age flint. We see it in old paintings and photos. We read about the past in old records. They may be ships' logs or church records. They may be diaries of pioneers. They may be journals of presidents. Each fact and story is interesting. Each is important. Each is part of history.
This is the job of historians. They try to come up with an accurate story. They look carefully at what they find. Then they put the past together again. Historians search for causes of events. They also look for history's effects. Sometimes they do not know how or why something happened. Then they come up with theories. These theories are based on the facts. They may help explain certain events.
When the facts are put together, a story of events and nations comes forth. The story of humans can be told.