The technical definition of history is “the study of past events, particularly in human affairs.”, but that is a rather uneventful and boring way of putting, while technically true it does not have the same sort of passion that a dedicated historian will have if you ask them the same question. If you ask any dedicated historian, you would get many different answers. if you ask me, I would say that history is not just a study of the past but also lessons for the future. for if we do not learn from our past mistakes, then we are doomed to repeat it.