Historian

"Historian" is also a: user

created by dem bones

(person) by kfitton (4.7 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Thu Apr 22 2004 at 21:31:38

A historian is not an archeologist or an archivist. A historian is an analyzer of the human condition. Someone can know a lot of 'history' and still not be a historian. It is a process of thinking that allows the elements of society to become clear to show the causes and effects that decisions have made upon the world. Historians draw from many sources: policical science, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and many others. Sadly, the world tends to treat historians with disdain...what value is someone who is always looking into the past. It becomes quite simple really; the present becomes the past and often it tends to repeat itself. So searching into the past can shed enlightenment upon the present and in some cases even predict the future.

"What we learn from history, is that we don't learn from history." - Hegel

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:10:05

His*to"ri*an (?), n. [F. historien.]

A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.

Even the historian takes great liberties with facts. Sir J. Reynolds.

One versed or well informed in history.

Great captains should be good historians. South.

printable version
chaos

History	Historiographer	Benedetto Croce	Human condition
George Bancroft	Eric Hobsbawm	Ambrose Bierce	Social banditry
The Lines That Used To Be	Theophylact Simocatta	Arthur Schlesinger	Character Of Constantine And His Sons III
Marc Bloch	The Story of Civilization	The Rise of The Christian Religion	American Association for History and Computing
Japanese culture	Doris Kearns Goodwin	Arnold J. Toynbee	Brian Manning
Irina Sventsitskaya	Lao Cookery	Pearl of the Quarter	Friedrich Münzer

Y'know, if you log in, you can write something here, or contact authors directly on the site. Create a New User if you don't already have an account.

Login
Password

remember me
password reminder
register

Everything2 Help

What you are reading:
The Sin Club
Translucent, threatening to smash itself
Love is more complicated than Quantum Mechanics
Multimedia software essentials 2D IMAGE EDITING
Empedocles
Useful Latin phrases
How to improve your orgasms
25 ways not to tell someone that you're in love with them
SID
Cocteau Twins
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
event cone
Jesus driving out the Temple moneychangers

Meezzio
Gotlandssnus	(thing)
argv
Astral Plane	(idea)
Madara
One Winged Angel	(fiction)
Tom Rook
Talk is cheap	(poetry)
shaogo
Adelle Davis	(person)
Aerobe
race car g sfjsgsd	(poetry)
Binah
Dream Log: July 5, 2008	(dream)
StrawberryFrog
Forgotten things in space	(idea)
antigravpussy
velvet revolution fairy tale	(idea)
Heitah
Nerve agent VX	(thing)
Pavlovna
shite	(idea)
wonton
Days and nights come together in a slow falling down	(fiction)
Pavlovna
wee	(idea)
katherine
root log: July 2008	(log)
Madara
There’s nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home	(fiction)

This page courtesy of The Everything Development Company