historian
- n a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
historical document
- n writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)
historical paper
- n writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)
historical present
- n the use of the present tense to describe past actions or states
historical record
- n writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)
historical school
- n a school of 19th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms
historicalness
- n the state of having in fact existed in the past
- n significance owing to its history
historicism
- n a theory that social and cultural events are determined by history
historiographer
- n a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
historiography
- n a body of historical literature
- n the writing of history
history
- n the aggregate of past events
a critical time in the school's history - n a record or narrative description of past events
a history of France - n the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
he teaches Medieval history
history takes the long view - n the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
all of human history - n all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
the dawn of recorded history
from the beginning of history
history department
- n the academic department responsible for teaching history