Defining History as a Discipline

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History as a discipline means we do more than remember narratives, we engage with them and draw meaning. While a content is remembered, a discipline requires active engagement with that content. Historians use primary sources (documents, artifacts, eyewitness accounts) and secondary sources (interpretations by scholars) to construct narratives. Defining history as a discipline enables us to move from static stories of the past to dynamic sequences of investigation and interpretation.