ABSTRACT
History is a technology developed for the express purpose of making sense, producing coherence on its own technical terms whether or not it actually exists. History work is the basic conviction of historical scholarship, the article of faith of a historicized world fixated on historical precedent. The historical scholarship that produces meaning, direction, and purpose irrespective of their actual existence is definitely "subjective", possibly "biased", ultimately "ideological". History can demonstrate multiple historicist agendas such as, as the trajectory of divine providence; as the path of human moral and intellectual progress; as an organic body that develops through successive stages of development and decline; as the ultimate self-fulfilment of the world-spirit. History is the one human science that apparently avoids this disciplinary self-delusion. In history human agents, their intentions, and their situations have in any case an inherently unpredictable, social-psychological dimension.
