POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
FACULTY OF ARTS
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
HOW SHOULD THE HISTORIAN APPROACH HIS CRAFT
HOW SHOULD THE HISTORIAN APPROACH HIS CRAFT
INTRODUCTION:
There are enormous differences between history and natural science, as of course, there are lesser, but considerable difference between the individual and science. Just as the science are the body of knowledge about the natural world and the physical universe produced by scientists, applying their system method of devising experiment, observing natural phenomena, recording and analyzing data, and developing and applying concept and the theory, so history is the bodies of knowledge about the past produced by historians applying the rigors method professional history, and deploying secondary sources in the analysis and interpretation of primary. The human past enfolds so many periods and cultures that history can no more form one unified body of knowledge than can the natural science. However, history is about finding things out and solving problem, rather than about spinning narrative or telling stories.