Richard S. Levy.
History is the study of the human past.
It is both a subject matter and a way of thinking - a discipline. No time, no place, no people is neglected in the investigation of the human community's historical record. And no method is alien to the historian's quest for understanding. Because every succeeding generation has new questions to ask of the past, history is constantly being rewritten. The discipline of history rests on the critical reading and evaluation of evidence.