They use a range of methods and analytical tools to answer questions about the past and to reconstruct the diversity of past human experience: how profoundly people have differed in their ideas, institutions, and cultural practices how widely their experiences have varied by time and place, and the ways they have struggled while inhabiting a shared world.
To study history is to study change: historians are experts in examining and interpreting human identities and transformations of societies and civilizations over time.
