ABSTRACT
History aspires to construct and tell true stories about the discovered evidence of the past. Of course, truth about the past remains elusive and approximate. We can never be certain that we have understood the past correctly. But historians always seek the truth about the past insofar as that is possible. Truth is that never quite attainable straight line that is never precisely straight. As craftsmen, historians construct their story on the basis of evidence by selecting and arranging the facts (or ideas, values, or artifacts) in a chronological sequence that
has a beginning, middle, and end. Where the story begins and ends is a matter of interpretation, as well as discovery. In this process, past facts become present statements of fact, narrated after the fact by the historian.
