Isn't History a Science?

Imeann: Is there a sense in which we're looking backwards from the perspective of the present to identify what constitutes history? She says if you think about history as as a science, or as an empirical undertaking, you would expect to look at what actually transpired. Imeann: You could give him some credit for having some fidelity to what actually happened,. verses adding some kind of interpretive layer on top of it.