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History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past, with historians like Niall Ferguson, Yuval Noah Harari, and Mary Beard analyzing and interpreting evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened, often drawing on the works of influential thinkers like Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Michel Foucault. As an academic discipline, history is closely related to fields like archaeology, anthropology, and sociology, and has been shaped by the contributions of institutions like the University of Oxford, Harvard University, and the Smithsonian Institution. The purpose of history is debated among theorists, with some seeing it as a social science, while others consider it part of the humanities or a hybrid discipline, with notable examples including the Annales school, the Marxist historiography of Eric Hobsbawm, and the postmodernist critiques of Hayden White