ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A historical fact is a fact about the past. It answers the very basic question, “What happened?” Yet beyond merely listing the events in chronological order, historians try to discover why events happened, what circumstances contributed to their cause, what subsequent effects they had, and how they were interpreted.

Detailed explanation-2: -Historical facts include: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to World War I. The Union won the Civil War. Flappers were common during the 1920s.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is an Inquiry into what happened in the past, when it happened, and how it happened. It is an inquiry into the inevitable changes in human affairs in the past and the ways these changes affect, influence or determine the patterns of life in the society. History is, or should be an attempt to re-think the past.

Detailed explanation-4: -Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called “the way of life for an entire society.” As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, art.