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'''History''' is the [[Field of study|study]] of past events. People know what happened in the past by looking at [[wikt:thing|things]] ''from'' the past including sources (like [[book]]s, [[newspaper]]s, scripts and [[letter]]s), buildings and [[Artifact (archaeology)|artifacts]] (like [[pottery]], [[tool]]s, [[coin]]s and human or animal remains.) [[Library|Libraries]], [[archive]]s, and [[museum]]s collect and keep these things for people to study history. A person who studies history is called a [[historian]]. A person who studies [[pre-history]] and history through things left behind by ancient cultures is called an [[archaeologist]]. A person who studies [[human race|mankind]] and [[society]] is called an [[anthropologist]]. The study of the sources and methods ''used to study and write'' history is called [[historiography]].

'''History''' is the [[Field of study|study]] of past events. People know what happened in the past by looking at [[thing|things]] ''from'' the past including sources (like [[book]]s, [[newspaper]]s, scripts and [[letter]]s), buildings and [[Artifact (archaeology)|artifacts]] (like [[pottery]], [[tool]]s, [[coin]]s and human or animal remains.) [[Library|Libraries]], [[archive]]s, and [[museum]]s collect and keep these things for people to study history. A person who studies history is called a [[historian]]. A person who studies [[pre-history]] and history through things left behind by ancient cultures is called an [[archaeologist]]. A person who studies [[human race|mankind]] and [[society]] is called an [[anthropologist]]. The study of the sources and methods ''used to study and write'' history is called [[historiography]].

People can learn about the past by talking to people who remember things that happened at some point in the past. This is called [[oral history]]. For example, when people who had been [[slavery|slaves]] and [[American Civil War]] survivors got old, some historians recorded them talking about their lives, so that history would not be lost.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About this Collection {{!}} Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 {{!}} Digital Collections {{!}} Library of Congress|url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/|access-date=2020-10-24|website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}</ref>  

People can learn about the past by talking to people who remember things that happened at some point in the past. This is called [[oral history]]. For example, when people who had been [[slavery|slaves]] and [[American Civil War]] survivors got old, some historians recorded them talking about their lives, so that history would not be lost.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About this Collection {{!}} Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 {{!}} Digital Collections {{!}} Library of Congress|url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/|access-date=2020-10-24|website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}</ref>