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History is one of the major academic disciplines with long traditions and various longstanding philosophical disputes. This article is absolutely amateurish, a hodge-podge of non-connected individual points and sheer diletantism. Surely we can do better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.130.160.157 (talk) 20:43, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Probably true; it's an article I seldom visit despite having it in my watchlist. Articles on specific histories are interesting to me, while an article on history as a field is less so. Perhaps what's missing is a proper section on the field's, er... history. UpdateNerd (talk) 07:57, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As a professional historian myself, I think it's pretty good. It covers lots of themes that interest actual historians. Rjensen (talk) 08:58, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I would agree, it is not perfect, but a very useful summation of the craft. Profcates (talk) 02:11, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I believe some of the philosophical debate can be found in the Historiography article. I agree that this article is somewhat disjointed and seems partial to perhaps a modernist/empiricist view of history as opposed to for example a post-modernist/post-structuralist view. PCChris23 (talk) 04:02, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 13 January 2022 and 9 April 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): ELizaluu (article contribs).

"History (from Ancient Greek: ἱστορία, romanized: historíā, lit. 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') is the study and the documentation of the past." This preusumed definition of history is not everything that it seems to be. This sentence should actually say instead that history is the comprehensive study of the past using both including archeological and historiographic methods. These definitions are not the same way they appear to be, the first one just reduces the ehole subject to a pitifully constrained definition. History is not just the simple study of historiography. The second definition exposes this fact.

These distinctions should be self evident enough. But the real problem here is that this is somehow still not yet the cases nit yet the case. The whole concepyt that the study of history should be the study of the"recorded" past is litrraly ridiculous! What!? Geological history? What!? Astronomical hidtory!?, archeology? What!?

Are these not historical disciplines as well? Why do you hold the authority of deciding this matter by yourselves? Upon what reason and fact did you judge this absurdity to be true? On what base is it reasonable to assume that the treatment of the whole study of history (and the past) [synonymously] with all it's scrutiny should with all due respect be wholly entrusted to a (as ir is now apparent) pedantic, and also from time to time prejudiced historiographic method and therefore be reduced to ambiguity? History is a empirical science, and it's common sense, usual and mundane sense of the word is adequate enough. These linguistic contortions are ridiculous and insane! Archeology is a part of history, as well. Is the divise between history, archeology and historiography not actually suspicious? Are these divisions and distinctions not artificial as well, are they reall not? Is it not the case? 109.245.37.173 (talk) 11:50, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just the intro portion of section § Methods before the first subsection is very long on its own, and needs further refactoring into subsections. Perhaps the entire section needs to be condensed, or have content shipped out to Child article|child articles, per WP:Summary style. Mathglot (talk) 05:37, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

what about it? 174.6.13.69 (talk) 05:25, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong article, see herstory instead. Dimadick (talk) 21:31, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 9 January 2023 and 9 April 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Anairol (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Anairol (talk) 05:23, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

At the end of the previous chapter, we discussed the impact of colonial rule in West Africa. This chapter now concentrates on the major challenges African leaders have had to confront since that attainment of self-care-rule. The post-colonial story in West Africa is not very pleasant. Since the 1970s, West African countries have been plagued by severe economic problems. Carl Draymon (talk) 23:08, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Research on how apartheid affected people's lives and how people responded 102.221.95.247 (talk) 15:16, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Define apartheid in three different ways 102.221.95.247 (talk) 15:18, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that would be a bit more meaningful on a more specialized page. Consider looking at Apartheid and seeing how you can contribute there. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 18:22, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Seems a weird choice. Barjimoa (talk) 15:33, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Highlight the contribution of greek roman document as a source of history and government 197.237.200.142 (talk) 09:47, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Art history links to "history of art" instead of "art history" as it was intended to. I would like to request someone to fix it please. 2001:44C8:402B:1693:8522:C89D:4637:4DDC (talk) 16:37, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• You got it. Drmies (talk) 16:44, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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223.123.108.74 (talk) 11:56, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Liu1126 (talk) 12:38, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 9 January 2024 and 12 April 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): GondaraHarpreet012, Sunardevendrasum (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by GondaraHarpreet012 (talk) 23:10, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]