The events of the past, filtered through the minds of the present.

1)A helpful course, usually taught in school, where students learn that Hitler was bad and jackshit else.

2) What you must frequently erase to hide your porn tracks.

1. A pretty decent class where you can learn about anything ranging from the Egyptians to the Rennaissance to World War II, and much more.

2. A channel on TV that basically shows about 10% real history and the rest utter bullshit.

3. Something that overprotective parents check to see if you are looking at porn or something innocent like neopets or Wikipedia.

The tale of how many different nations, from all across the world, gained their independence from Great Britain.

What repeats itself over and over and over again.

The study of the past. 'History' is often used to mean 'historical knowledge' when in reality 'history' is the process of researching the past using the available evidence, cross referencing and establishing 'historical knowledge'.

Historians argue about whose interpretation is most valid. These debates often last decades and are only resolved when either one side's research is shown to be of poor quality, or when new evidence comes to light proving one interpretation more valid.

Postmodernists argue that history is rubbish because they reckon that it impossible to understand al the motivations of the creator of the surce material which 'history' uses to forge historical knowledge. They're wrong.

Events that occured in the past.