History can also refer to the academic discipline which uses a narrative to examine and analyse a sequence of past events, and objectively determine the patterns of cause and effect that determine them.<ref name="evans1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Whatishistory/evans10.html|title=The Two Faces of E.H. Carr|accessdate=10 November 2008|author=Professor Richard J. Evans|year=2001|work=History in Focus, Issue 2: What is History?|publisher=University of London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Whatishistory/munslow6.html|title=What History Is|accessdate=10 November 2008|author=Professor Alun Munslow|year=2001|work=History in Focus, Issue 2: What is History?|publisher=University of London}}</ref> Historians sometimes debate the nature of history and its usefulness by discussing the study of the discipline as an end in itself and as a way of providing "perspective" on the problems of the present.<ref name="evans1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Whatishistory/evans10.html|title=The Two Faces of E.H. Carr|accessdate=10 November 2008|author=Professor Richard J. Evans|year=2001|work=History in Focus, Issue 2: What is History?|publisher=University of London}}</ref><ref name="Tosh1">{{Cita libro|title=The Pursuit of History|publication-date=2006|publisher=Pearson Education Limited|isbn=1-4058-2351-8|ISBN=1-4058-2351-8|edition=4th}}</ref><ref>{{Cita libro|title=Knowing Teaching and Learning History, National and International Perspectives|editor1=Peter N. Stearns|editor2=Peters Seixas|editor3=Sam Wineburg|chapter=Introduction|year=2000|publisher=New York University Press|location=New York & London|isbn=0-8147-8141-1|ISBN=0-8147-8141-1|page=6}}</ref><ref>{{Cita libro|title=Knowing Teaching and Learning History, National and International Perspectives|editor=Peter N. Stearns|editor2=Peters Seixas|editor3=Sam Wineburg (eds.)|chapter=The "Convergence" Paradigm in Studying Early American History in Schools|year=2000|publisher=New York University Press|location=New York & London|isbn=0-8147-8141-1|ISBN=0-8147-8141-1|pages=102–115}}</ref>
