What historians do?

Historians perform a variety of activities relating to the history of humankind. Many are teachers and professors that educate students. This involves offering explanations of historical events and answers questions from their students on the same type of questions. Historians also do research to explore new materials that better display historical events and author books and research papers on old as well as new parts of history. Often they enhance the work of historians of the past or give their own opinions of the work of previous historians. One overlooked responsibility of modern day historians is to study the works of ancient historians to either verify or contradict previous versions of history.