What is History?

What is History? The word History which originated from Greek word iotopia, historia, meaning "inquiry and knowledge acquired by investigation" is the scientific study of the past. Events occurring before the invention of writing systems are considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. Herodotus, a 5th-century BC Greek historian is often considered to be the "father of history" within the Western tradition, although he has also been called the "father of lies". Along with his contemporary Thucydides, he helped form the foundations for the modern study of human history. What Is History? is a 1961 non-fiction book by historian Edward Hallett Carr on historiography. It discusses history, facts, the bias of historians, science, morality, individuals and society, and moral judgements in history. The book originated in a series of lectures given by Carr in 1961 at the University of Cambridge. The lectures were intended as a broad introduction into the subject of the theory of history and their accessibility has resulted in What is History? becoming one of the key texts in the field of historiography. History is the study of life in society in the past, in all its aspect, in relation to present developments and future hopes. History is a significant record of events of the past, a meaningful story of mankind depicting the details of what happened to man ,why it happened and how it happened. Mainly it deals with the human world. The modern study of history is wide-ranging, and includes the study of specific regions.